Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

If ISIS represents Islam, then the KKK represents Christianity

When you try to persistently abolish hatred, at that very moment...you lose focus on love.

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Climate has been changing for billions of years.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit.

The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.

I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.