I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there.

Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable.

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. - Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them.

I try to anticipate exactly where my teammates are going to be. Sometimes I look good. Sometimes I look bad.

Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.

Passing is contagious. There's nothing better than making the pass that gives someone an easy hoop.

I don't care what sport you're talking about. What you see with great franchises is structure - a structure that doesn't just take you from year to year, but day to day.

Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.

I only wrote prose before I met you. My musings were superfluous and serious as well. But now the words dance with me. I sing with them and we create poetry.

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at I am not what I am.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Don't let your brain interfere with your heart.

Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

There is nothing more powerful as attitude.

Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known.