“As far as how I expressed ‘practice, practice, practice’ over and over again, I wouldn’t take that back because, obviously, that sound bite is great for the media and for the fans, because they love it.”

That’s the only thing that got me here is my teammates. My teammates and my coach. That’s the only reason I’m here.

Detroit was a bad situation for me.

I didn’t do this by myself, man. It was so many people, so many fans that came in there and cheered for me, night in and night out.

You hit road blocks in life, but I’m living proof that you can overcome those road blocks and become what you want to become.

I’m not going to be the same as I was when I’ve made so many bad mistakes.

I had to learn that some people are just not going to like you. I had to have thick skin when I would see what people would say or write about me.

I owe all of this to the guys I’ve played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I’m at right now. I’m honored to be here.

I went from the projects to a real house. It was a big difference.

You used to think the suspect was the guy with the cornrows; now you see the police officers with the cornrows.

Coach’s voice will never leave my head as long as I live.

I wasn’t afraid to be who I am. I didn’t think anything was wrong with it.

If you’re from Virginia, then you know some white people from Poquoson don’t like black people.

LeBron ain’t got none of my game, but his heart is all mine.

This is the thing you dream about when you’re a kid, even before getting into the league.

God gave me all this; why waste the talent that he gave me? Why not go full throttle with it all and try to become in the class with the greatest players that ever played the game? That’s just a great feeling.

I don’t care. I feel like if we don’t make a trade, we have to get it done with what we’ve got.

To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.