Basketball is a business. Pure and simple. If you want to have fun, go to the YMCA.

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

He uses our past to positively affect our present and secure our future.

The reflection of chaos is creativity.

He could inspire ballads. He could inspire wars.

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.

I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

The chicken is a dinosaur. I mean, it really is. You can't argue with it, because we're the classifiers and we've classified it that way.

I've become a pretty tough cookie after having a divorce. I think that I've persevered through a lot of talk.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

As far as co-operation with The Hague is concerned it's impossible (to arrest Milosevic) by March 31 without an agreement on the federal level despite the consequences such a move could have.