“Everybody has a different journey.”

You can’t be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.

I wanna be the best, simple and plain.

Thank god, I’m not from this world.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

I was an idiot when I was a kid.

I’m focused on the task that lies ahead for us.

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

I’ve pretty much done all I can here and, you know, God will carry me the rest of the way, so I’m pretty comfortable with that.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

The guy said NBA players are one in a million, I said, ‘Man, look, I’m going to be that one in a million.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

If you want to make history, you have to do historic things.

When you start training camp, you’re building the tools necessary to win a championship. You have to have the patience.

I was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that’s what I do.

I don’t talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.

I’m now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.

All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.

I think everything you do, characters I always find, have their own voices and once you establish who that character is you find a different voice. I think it’s just a question of establishing that character and the voice speaks through that character.

Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.

There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture.

The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility.

And it was different because I’d already lost her so many times, so many ways, in my head. And different because she was never really mine to lose. And different because this wasn’t my fault.

Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it’s moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I’m probably the trombone.