“My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.”

You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you’ve got it, you ain’t got it. No pussycats, please.

I’ve been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and learn every day. I have tried to apply that approach in my modest career as well.

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying “We work to become, not to acquire.”

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

We couldn’t sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn’t close out well enough.

The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.

The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

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You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.

Friendship is a full-time job.

If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it’s not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars’ worth of work.

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.

He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.

But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.

Far must thy researches go Wouldst thou learn the world to know; Thou must tempt the dark abyss Wouldst thou prove what Being is; Naught but firmness gains the prize, Naught but fullness makes us wise, Buried deep truth e’er lies.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship

Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.

Prizes do not mean anything to me.