I demand more from myself than anybody could ever expect.

If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.

I am very proud to be featured, especially when you consider the outstanding champions who have had this honor. It is great company to be in.

If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.