“I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.”

Everybody shut up. Let us work.

It doesn’t matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace – I’d play anywhere.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.

Everybody has a different journey.

You have to go with things that you understand. Businesses that you know.

We’re grown ass men, you don’t need to be falling all over the place.

I know how to play my guard spot, he can worry about the low post.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

You have to be able to separate business from the love of the game.

When I’m finished playing, I want people to say, ‘He handled this well, he kept his cool.’

It’s not about the number of hours you practice, it’s about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice.

What I’m doing right now, I’m chasing perfection and if I don’t get it, I’m going to get this close.

Each moment of my life I was dreaming of how great I could be, and continued working hard. Each time I closed my eyes I could see me shining bright like a sun.

My role is to make sure we’re moving in the right direction, getting points, rebounds, steals, assists and providing leadership.

The world is God’s language to us.

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

I usually mug up my Telugu dialogues much before going to the sets every day.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Silence is God’s first language.

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.