"Always stay true to yourself. Some people will like it, some people won't. Life goes on."

"Nobody should expect more of you than you expect of yourself."

"Every Morning You Have Two Choices: Continue To Sleep With Your Dreams, Or Wake Up and Chase Them."

"What I do will be straight up. Management knows that."

"With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials."

"I like having fun."

"Leadership is something I was born with."

"I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out."

"Of course I want to take the last shot, let's be quite frank: I've been doing for nine years already, and I've made a ton of them."

"I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everything I can to make people around me understand I'm not a selfish player."

"I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day."

"Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor."

"I just want to get on the court."

"I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself."

"I think everybody has their own unique style."

"I wanted to make the lightest shoe possible, but still be able to perform at the same time."

"It's easier for me to let the game just come to me."

"Man, I'm not trying to be important; I just go out and play."

"Who wouldn't want to go back home to play?"

"Life is a risk."

"I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong."

"At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy."

"I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there."

"I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done."

"I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just their opinions, but if I said I don't hear it, or it doesn't bother me a little bit, I'd be lying to you."

"People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started."

"It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions."

"Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life."

"When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball."

"The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you don't see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach."

"When I really like something, I try to put my all into it. This is something thats different from when I was growing up on the basketball court, running up and down, scoring 30 points or something. This is totally something different."

"Without a doubt, any opportunity I have to build that up in New York, I'd do it. I told people all the time, always say, 'If it takes me taking a pay cut, I'll be the first one on James Dolan's steps saying take my money and let's build something strong over here.'"

"The NBAs a Fortune 500 company. Thats how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you dont see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach."

"There weren't any sports figures that I idolized because I didn't really believe in myself back then or think that I could make it here. There were some regular people in my neighborhood that I looked up to growing up but that was it."

"No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful."

"Only I can change my life. No one can do "it "for me."

"Comedy = tragedy + time."

"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own."

"You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself."

"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."

"Because nobody goes though life without a scar."

"Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing."

"It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others."

"When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged."

"I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas."

"I'm so happy with what has happened in my life."

"We don't stop going to school when we graduate."

"Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head."

"We all get where we're going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted."

"Because nobody goes through life without a scar."