“There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.”

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

Young people need models, not critics.

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them.

If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Discipline yourself, and others won’t need to.

Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.

A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.

We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.

One day love will arrive on your front door, and they will have the right address.

He thought that he wanted the whole world. When she arrived in his life, she became his whole world.

There’s no need to rush, what’s meant for you, will always arrive on time.

When I arrived, at first a lot of people were like, ‘This kid is different.’

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.