Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.

Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.

When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.

Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.

Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

There are four pillars to happiness, which is the ultimate goal in life-to be happy. Health is first, family is second, home is third. That safe place where you can go to and regroup, be in a safe place by yourself start over. Those three things lead to the fourth pillar which is the hope and dream that tomorrow is going to be better. Without that you have not much at all.

Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.