Winning is the best deodorant.

Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable.

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. - Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them.

I try to anticipate exactly where my teammates are going to be. Sometimes I look good. Sometimes I look bad.

Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.

Passing is contagious. There's nothing better than making the pass that gives someone an easy hoop.

I don't care what sport you're talking about. What you see with great franchises is structure - a structure that doesn't just take you from year to year, but day to day.

Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.

I had a fair idea how it felt to get spanked with a large flat surface, and my rump clenched in sympathy.

Necessity knows no rules.

I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child.

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

Be different so that people can see you clearly amongst the crowds.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.

Seek to understand rather than be understood.

Truth in the end shall prevail.