成功绝非偶然。它是努力、坚持、学习、研究、牺牲，最重要的是对你所做事情的热爱。

The most important thing is you must put everybody on notice that you’re here and you are for real. I’m not a player that is just going to come and go. I’m not a player that is going to make an All-Star team one time, two times. I’m here to be an all-time great. Once I made that commitment and said, ‘I want to be one of the greatest ever’, then the game became everything for me.

The decay of political institutions is often a result of the inability to adapt to changing circumstances, leading to rigidity and eventual decline.

我声称要完全活出我时代的矛盾，这可能会使讽刺成为真理的条件。