As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

I’m looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

I’ve taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you’re in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it’s on track, that it’s going in.

I’m a big believer than a great bit is a great bit – if I go and see someone I love, like Robert Klein. I want to hear some classics and some new stuff. But a great stand-up bit takes a long time to really polish and perfect, and they’re beautiful things when they’re done.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Politics is applesauce.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

You can’t trample infidels when you’re a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.

It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to have to paint it.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Life must be lived as play.

To make headway, improve your head.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

I think that, ah, I’m a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.