Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
I've always respected [Michael Jordan] but I've never been a fan of his [Jordan's]. Because everybody else is.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.
Basketball's so much like life: if something's going great, you wait a minute, it will change. If something's going bad, you wait a minute, it will change. So I try to play things on such an even keel, knowing that things are going to change. You take the good with the bad; you don't get too excited, you don't get too down and sometimes that's the hardest thing in the world to do when you're in the midst of it, but that's the best way to handle it.
The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.
I am who I am because of the people who I grew up with and where I'm from.
I enjoy jokes, smiling, and making people smile. I may be a little different, but that's OK, who wants to be normal anyway?
No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.
Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.
A human being is like a television set with millions of channels. . . . We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.
What originally established the band was cover songs like Not Fade Away. Then, later on, we got more well-known ones like Satisfaction, which you might say echoed the thinking of, well, any generation you care to name, including the present one. But we didn't set out on bits of paper that we were going to be the voice of a generation. The original aim of the Rolling Stones was to play blues. It wasn't even to play rock music.