My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.

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.

If someone deprives you of history deprives you of your future

We like to forget and underestimate the power of love and kindness, more often than not, it can change a life and a society.

By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

Blush at your faults.

A tight-money policy reinforces inequality in two ways. Its high interest rates disproportionately reward the rich, and the resulting unemployment disproportionately punishes the poor.

And I am in love with light. Lock me in the sunshine.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.