Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.

I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.

My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.

Friendship is a full-time job.

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.

The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand.

We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.