"It takes people a while to trust you."

"Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'"

"I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama."

"I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home."

"I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics."

"I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules."

"Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia."

"Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing."