American Quotes

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning whe

I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.

I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to say, 'I like you, I want to go out with you, you can ask me.' And still I would question it. Did she mean it?

I'm not a Hollywood guy.

I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.

I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre.

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

I really wasn't a class clown.

I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.

I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are licking peanut butter off my face.

I could never be James Bond.

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.