We couldn't sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn't close out well enough.

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.

You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

The fear of failure is a liability.

Learn how to love a broke man to marry a good man.

The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

Without humility you can't love. Love means looking beyond the self to the other.

The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.

Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.

You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss.

We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.

[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.