I've learned a lot at home and been able to take what I've learned at home to the court.

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.

It's funny how you can know a person, think of him as your closest friend, and still never gain access to the secret chambers in his heart.

Torture?” she asked with a laugh. “My first piece of information I’ll divulge to you? I wouldn’t recommend trying to torture me. I dislike it and grow sulky under pincers.It’s a fault.

Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.

Need is what tears people apart. When you want someone, you never really need them. But as soon as you start need someone, they no longer want you.

I've never seen grief like it. Grief like that, it's like an animal. She's not eating. She's not sleeping. She's whimpering. She's sluggish. She's not herself

Over the boundary of time, Hope transcends, Desire sings, One verse, One song, And that is the song of happiness.

We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.