One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work

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.

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

I profess myself an enemy to all other joys, which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.

I hate to make the comparison here, but think of me as one of those expensive boutiques. If you have to ask about the cost, you probably can’t afford me.

Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out.

The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding.

The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.

I certainly agree that capital is not a one-dimensional object, and that the return on capital takes very different forms for different assets or different people.

You are not kept poor by lack in the supply of riches.