Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

The best part of basketball, for those people on the inside, is the bus going to the airport after you've won a game on an opponent's floor. It's been a very tough battle. And preferably, in the playoffs. And that feeling that you have, together as a group, having gone to an opponent's floor and won a very good victory, is as about as high as you can get.

Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.

I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

When the mind is allowed to relax, inspiration often follows.

You have to be unique.