Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.

Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it.

Everything negative—pressure, challenges—is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the ‘me’ for the ‘we’.

Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them—a desire, a dream, a vision.

Basketball is like photography, if you don’t focus, all you have is the negative.

There are no bad books, only bad writers.

The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do.

The things that make you strange are the things that make you powerful.