Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

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

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

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.

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

Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.