Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.

I don't have very many regrets, not because I lived a perfect life but because life is a bunch of rolling hills, not mountains, or speed bumps instead of stop signs, and so you come to a situation and it's neither good or bad, it just is, and what it means to you is what's your take on it. But the second part of the equation is what are you going to do about it. A lot of times I'm completely wrong, but all you do is back up and start over.

You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you've got it, you ain't got it. No pussycats, please.

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper.