The great thing about basketball is you work as hard as you can to individually get better so that your team can win

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.

To change a team you must change their comfort zone.

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.

When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is

I've always said you have to go through a lot of heartache in life to feel joy.

We've got to get our fans back. We've got to start winning and get our fans excited about the 76ers again... We're selling hope. This is about hope. We have hope that we have a chance to be good.

I think that Paul Gasol is the most skilled big man in the NBA today with his ability to post on either block, the way he runs the floor, and the way he can shoot the mid-range jump shot.

Aside from an intervention, which I don't think is on anybody's mind, Iraq is going to have defend for itself.

Boston is a very proud franchise. The NBA misses them when they are not in the mix. They, along with teams like the Knicks and 76ers are a big part of the heart, soul and history of the league.

Love is a song, written in your heart.

Romantic EgoistNozomi: You've got an idea in your head... how you should act, but you can't act like, so you stifle yourself and don't even try.

I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.

I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

"Just give your life to us and stop worrying about things," is what Obama's message is, and people don't want to do that.

What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.

The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.