“I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.”

If you’re living for today, if you’re only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn’t work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you’re on your way.

I like a lot of other music and listen to a lot of other music, but one of the greatest things about the Grateful Dead is they played all the time.

I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there.

There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.

What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.

Tim Duncan’s foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year’s playoffs. That’s not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I’m an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.

I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.

It’s the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you’re on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry – they wear you out and there’s nothing like being on a great team.

That’s what makes it so fun to be on a team. You’re sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it’s going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.

I’m mainstream. Always have been.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.

Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.

Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.

People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.

More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.

Relationships change us and make us grow.