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.

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

Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.

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

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

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.