The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.

My coach told me, "Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there's always someone out there who's working just a little harder - if you take 150 practice shots, he's taking 200." And that drove me.

I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.

There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don't understand that

I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.

You're all playin' for second place.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

It's hard to leave the only place you've known.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell's version of "A Case of You." My mom was a huge Joni Mitchell fan.

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live different ways. It's a big world.

Other than my marriage, the decision to get a Ph.D. was probably the best decision of my life.

People need to look at baseball like it has been sent from the heavens, and respect the game.

You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.

I look for people who have insight in places where I don't.