All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel.

(Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge for a third straight award-winning season.

The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.

I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know.

The less you move on the groundthe more the world moves around.

It was painful to have him so near, yet beyond my reach.

Kindness is the basic ingredient for the recipe of happiness.

You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them.

The most difficult thing about being humble is not being able to brag about it.

[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.

Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.

I don't stream or buy CDs pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.

Even though I like looking good - don't get me wrong - but if I don't want to, I don't have to.