I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.

Play the game with a smile.

Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

Guys have to look up to somebody. Everybody needs to have their own role and somebody has to be the star.

Sport is the only profession I know of that when you retire you have to go to work.

The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.

I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.

The products your life must have could be in the form of perfecting your gifts and talents.

You should open these doors with care and caution-but, first, you must know how to close them. And above all, you must know which doors should be left unopened...

America...Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch...My James Brown.

We learn that those around us are an extension of ourselves, both animate and inanimate. All things have a life and form. We learn to love them all.

City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur

I'm not a disciplined writer.

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.

I'm always a little unnerved when I see a show that's set in the past that implies in any way that things were nicer then.