Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

Brook Lopez had a better game than Deron Williams

Has there ever been anyone quite like Paul Pierce ? No.

Don't worry about what other people are doing. Worry about what you're doing.

Coffee is the highlight of my day. After coffee everything is downhill.

In 1994, nobody could have predicted 'Shawshank' would one day be an iconic movie - and believe me, that would never have happened if Danny Glover had been Red instead of Morgan Freeman.

Anytime someone calls you and identifies themselves with their full name, odds are it isn't someone you want to talk to under any circumstances.

I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can't handle one of them, you probably don't deserve to win anyway.

I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.

One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.

But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

Even if you are sad, don’t forget to sing the song of love.

Before, time held no meaning with him. Now it’s everything. Every second of my existence feels like it will be the last.

That's No'-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock, mistress, ' said Not-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock. 'Ye were one jock short, ' he added helpfully.

Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.

Every man must be like Stephen Hawking. His body is here on earth, but his mind walks in the universe!

I think there are presences out there that we can't see or directly communicate with that have benevolent influence on us. Whether they're angels or something else, I'm not sure.

You are the one and only ever you.

For it is the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again that which they value most.

He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts; the voice that you heard was right, says Vedanta, but the direction you gave to the voice was wrong.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.