“Sometimes you get lucky – you don’t put much work in and you’re successful anyway. But over the course of time, if you really want to shape your path, I think it’s about the quality of the time you put in.”

It seemed like we were losing every night for a different reason. Now we’re winning a different way every time. It’s a great feeling.

When I was younger, I was just always looking for – you’re always looking for this hot, so hot, like super-hot girl.

College. I didn’t even realize it was carefree at the time, but looking back, that was the most carefree time ever.

It’s cool to actually have my own trading card.

Some of the best competition there’s been since I’ve been in the league. Just every night, night in and night out we get to play against the top guys, the top teams. It’s a lot of fun.

I’m not a huge fan of plastic surgery, for either guys or girls.

Take care of your body from the inside out.

The best part is if you dunk on someone at home and they show it on the replay!

Getting to play with my brother was an unreal experience at Oklahoma, in college, it’s some of the funnest times I’ve had in basketball, and I’ll cherish those memories forever.

People can’t measure the amount of heart you have and how much you’re willing to fight for something.

I was always chasing Taylor, trying to keep up with him.

Transformation excites me. So does truth. Nothing is more thrilling, hilarious, and tragic than the truth. Those things motivated me to become an actor. Also, they always have the best food on set.

Basketball has always and will always come first to me but it’s also given me the chance to do really fun things and work with really fun people and its something I’m lucky to have.

We’re not going to think about what’s happened in the past.

I was very healthy from a young age. I was always known as the healthy kid in my group of friends. My mom had us drink barley-grass powder, and I’ve taken vitamins and fish oil and multivitamins since I was a kid.

This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball.

I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

Haiti is unique – the first successful slave revolt in history, the first black republic etc., and then when you get into the culture, the voodoo, and that wonderful synchretization of Christian and African belief and symbology, it’s like nothing the world has ever seen.

A successful person allows his results to speak for him, not his mouth.

Successful people are the one’s that create their own path, not follow someone else’s.

Be passionate about the culture and the business, and remain positive, because it inspires others.

Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually

The SG-1 franchise has been so successful for the network, that they always want to keep it open, an option to do it again in some way, whether that’s a movie or a series, or whatever.

Just because you are famous and rich doesn’t make you successful.