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

I like to feel blonde all over.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

I like the celebrations when I see my teammates do it, when I see fellow footballers on the international scene do it. I think it looks good, it suits most of them, if you know what to do, synchronise, then do it.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

If I do the right things on and off the field that’s how a player is going to learn.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

Tonight – to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans – I ask for your support.

I’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‚Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,‘ but I’m like, ‚I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,‘ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.

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.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

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

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

Any top-level athlete, it’s always the same. There’s always that hint of arrogance there… It’s hard to be humble when you’re the best.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

I look after people.

It never bothered me when people would say, ‚You only win championships because you’re playing with Shaq.‘ It bothered me when he said it.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.