Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

[Coaching] is a difficult job which everyone who owns a TV thinks they can do better at.

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself, all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

I think Kwame will be an asset to the Lakers.

I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.