After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

I’ve always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Let’s embrace being not normal!

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It’s just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

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.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

I love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.