I'm living the American dream.

The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.

A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.

Life is simple. Make good decisions and good things happen. Make bad decisions and bad things happen.

A loser is someone who makes excuses and alibis and blames everyone else for their losses and failures.

People that don't know me think that basketball is my life 24/7. Trust me, there is much more to my life. My number one priority in my life is my family.

Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.

One day to see that headline, not that someone won a basketball championship, but to see that a cure for cancer has been found, will be a great day for mankind.

Looking back, I remember telling my daughters that we didn't have money, pizzazz and a lot of the things we have today, but we had so much love and we lived like millionaires.

It is time for everyone to sit down -the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity-and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.

You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.

Here was the puppeteer who was pulling strings all over the Empire. Didn’t he know that the Fates were the only ones who could tweak the threads of destiny?

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

Ellen Barkin, your upcoming TV show ‘The New Normal’ premiers on September 11th. September 11th, that sounds about right. Every clip I’ve seen feels like I’m watching a third tower collapse.

I get to the point where I feel relaxed, and then I just shoot a ton of material and make a lot of different choices.

Who or what inspires you?" "I must admit that I often read my own articles in scientific journals and inspire myself.

You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.