As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.

You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.

Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.

Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

A lion never roars after a kill.

Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

Ignorance is my refusal to think outside the box of my fears.

life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.

The service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I've encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE - and a maid to press it for me.

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.

Peter Crouch, the Marmite of football.

I can't wait to shock the doubters and prove I'm better and stronger than I was before.

America is a conservative country with a small "c" - they want change, but they don't want too much change too fast.

Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.

The devil only exists because of your belief in him; same goes for that other guy.

Everything's going to end eventually. I don't know if we're rushing it or making it faster.