I've always said you have to go through a lot of heartache in life to feel joy.

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.

To change a team you must change their comfort zone.

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.

When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is

We've got to get our fans back. We've got to start winning and get our fans excited about the 76ers again... We're selling hope. This is about hope. We have hope that we have a chance to be good.

I think that Paul Gasol is the most skilled big man in the NBA today with his ability to post on either block, the way he runs the floor, and the way he can shoot the mid-range jump shot.

Aside from an intervention, which I don't think is on anybody's mind, Iraq is going to have defend for itself.

Boston is a very proud franchise. The NBA misses them when they are not in the mix. They, along with teams like the Knicks and 76ers are a big part of the heart, soul and history of the league.

You don't want to be down 2-0 in a series. It's always important to try and get one on the opponent's home court. It makes your job at home easier.

The dead has only one place to go… up. Wherever you bury them, they will go the same way, up

You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.

I have a very low tolerance for animation. I'm used to the perfect integrity you get from drawing your own comics. There's something about that that animation always loses.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this - that ain't my title.

Freud also said we choose our own neuroses. Capitalism is the neurosis of humanity.

David [Beckham] should think that talking is silver, but being quiet is golden.

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.

You can fall into a trap, worrying too much about what the audience might think, rather than going from the inside out.