Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game...about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.

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.

In the end, the only thing that really matters is how we treated all living things.

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.

For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

The movie - any sports movie - becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity.

If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles.

Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

I feel much more respected in Europe than I do in the States from the press and from the people. Americans expect me to win every match I play.

My bazooka is locked, cocked, and ready to unload.

I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.