We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.

I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?

You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that anymore.

But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

So many people came into your life, and they were such a part of the everyday that it was impossible to imagine them gone until, one day, they were.

You don't change people's hearts by making them suffer. You harm yourself as well as them.

Relevance is not a substitute for the Gospel, but an entry point for it

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself. Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable.

People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do.

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.