You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.

Coffee is the highlight of my day. After coffee everything is downhill.

I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.

When I was in elementary school, we had the kid who threw chairs, the kid who stuttered, and the kid who went to the bathroom on himself ... but we never had the kid who came in one day and started shooting everyone.

Has there ever been anyone quite like Paul Pierce ? No.

One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.