Brook Lopez had a better game than Deron Williams

Has there ever been anyone quite like Paul Pierce ? No.

Don't worry about what other people are doing. Worry about what you're doing.

Coffee is the highlight of my day. After coffee everything is downhill.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

In 1994, nobody could have predicted 'Shawshank' would one day be an iconic movie - and believe me, that would never have happened if Danny Glover had been Red instead of Morgan Freeman.

Anytime someone calls you and identifies themselves with their full name, odds are it isn't someone you want to talk to under any circumstances.

I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can't handle one of them, you probably don't deserve to win anyway.

I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.

One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.

But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime.

Important principles may and must be flexible.

Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.

I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.

Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.

Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.

Look to see what you most desire in your life, then ride that feeling all the way to creation.

Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.

Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.

You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.