"A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group."

"I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream."

"Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to."

"My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it."

"Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go."

"One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals."

"There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice."

"It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me."