If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.

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.

Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him

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

If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.