All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.
I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.
We pride ourselves on taking opportunities to win when we have them.
Every day you waste is one you can never make up.
I think I've made some choices that maybe I wasn't so sure about for some reason or another. But I'm one of the lucky ones. Even when I was young, I played Bird, and that's a role people wait for their whole lifetime.
I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
I would have loved the opportunity to have gone to drama school, but it just didn't work out for me; there are always several paths, and there's a reason why I've been down this path.
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
It takes skill to benefit from luck.
Everybody gets opportunities; what you do with them is up to you.
Opportunities don't always come dressed in neon colors.
To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.
When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.
Time is the most valuable thing in life because it never comes back. And whether you spend it in the arms of a loved one or alone in a prison cell, life is what you make of it.
This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.
By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
Even in real life, at least I have that very strong sense of timing to do things when they are meant to be done. Like when to stop colouring your hair, when to do whatever, and to live by it too.
You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and events that you probably couldn't anticipate and indeed probably couldn't even imagine. So just keep your eyes on the course and be ready to move in different directions depending upon the crises and opportunities with which you are faced.
I learned a lot my rookie season - the pace of the game. Playing at the right pace, not 100 miles an hour.
I almost feel more anxious lately about, 'Here's your opportunity, now you've got to make something of it.'
I try to make the best of the opportunities that have been given to me.
You can make more money - you can buy a new body - but you can't buy time. If you are wasting it, make different choices. Don't wait.
I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.
