When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.

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

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

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