Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.

For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.

We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.