“To me, the most important part of winning is joy. You can win without joy, but winning that’s joyless is like eating in a four-star restaurant when you’re not hungry. Joy is a current of energy in your body, like chlorophyll or sunlight, that fills you up and makes you naturally want to do your best.”

I’ve been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and learn every day. I have tried to apply that approach in my modest career as well.

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying “We work to become, not to acquire.”

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

We couldn’t sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn’t close out well enough.

The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.

The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.

Friendship is a full-time job.

If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it’s not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars’ worth of work.

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure – that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.

I don’t run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

The level of jealousy and insecurity in this industry [restaurant] is far greater than ever before.

I don’t think it’s a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef’s a fat pig.

Focus on your customers and make that restaurant synonymous to where you are in terms of area.

Restaurants make money off those suffering from hunger, and grief counselors make money off those who have suffered tragic loss.

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.

Fame is not the worst thing. I went to dinner the other night, and the girls in the restaurant ignored me. It was so annoying.

I had no idea what was going on but I loved every moment of it!! Tokyo’s restaurant game is next level hotness.