Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

If ISIS represents Islam, then the KKK represents Christianity

I love you, Louise Downe McCord. You drive me absolutely crazy sometimes, and this is one of those times, but I love you.

[No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.

Our loved ones are always with us whether they are of the flesh or of the spirit.

I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

I like to look at scenarios and see how people interact with each other. That's why I'm an actor because I try to recreate that. Since our daughter joined us the spectrum has widened.

The stars fell one by one into his eyes and burnt.

Childhood's over the moment you know you're going to die.

I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.