Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.

You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.

Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.

Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

A lion never roars after a kill.

Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.

There's no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.

I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.

Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.

I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.

I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all... I picked a career in acting.)