What else don’t women like besides the Three Stooges? Tom Waits. Being hurt physically or emotionally.
I never wanted to leave Cleveland. My heart will always be in that area - in a perfect world I would have loved to stay.
You have to be able to accept failure to get better.
Basketball isn't easy. All my life I've been striving to make myself better. It's a full time commitment. To be the best, you have to work the hardest. You have to chase what seems impossible over and over and over again, because giving up is not an option, and when you feel like you've reached your limit, it's only the beginning, that's when the time to dig deep, to find the courage to push some more, because if you've got the drive, the discipline, and the resolve to do what it takes to make yourself great, then the rewards are endless.
Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.
The best teacher in life is experience.
In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.
Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.
Luck favors the prepared mind.
I think the US and Russia are mirroring each other and they have this lovehate relationship since the Cold War. You feel it when you go to Russia; they admire and hate the US at the same time, and here also there's this mistrust and it's always going to be there.
I'm learning that when you get out into the world and you try things, it's amazing that you'll find how strong you are when you have to be.