I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.

I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.

Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

It's not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game. It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let's put it on display and have some fun.

You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.

Follow your dreams and make the most of every experience.

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players.

I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.

With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season.

Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it.

Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.

What you said was true. we don't live or love in a vacuum. There are people around us who care about us who would be hurt, maybe destroyed if we let ourselves feel what we might want to feel.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?

Obviously, following my convictions has come at a personal price, but they are important enough that I have been willing to endure the abuse.

Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash and we just get along really well within one night.

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.