“Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.”

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.

It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.

I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.

Young people want you to be real with them.

WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place

Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.

There’s winning and there’s losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what’s never been acceptable to me is quitting.

If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.

I remember like it was yesterday. He had worked all those years to own that house and he cried. He was so excited and so happy and I want to see other people get that feeling, too.

You know I was a shy guy and people didn’t know that and still don’t know it today. I’m sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.

If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have.

With businesses, you go to the same places because you like the service, you like the people and they take care of you. They greet you with a smile. That’s how people want to be treated, with respect. That’s what I tell my employees – customer service is very important.

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs.

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

I certainly wasn’t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can’t earn, and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.