Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

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

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.

I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was not immediately good at basketball. It did not come easy. It came as the result of a lot of hard work and self-sacrifice. The rewards, where they worth it? One thousand times over.

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.

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

Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.