Center is a very tough position to play.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

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

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

If ISIS represents Islam, then the KKK represents Christianity

On the canvas of life, with the brushes of goodness, love and passion, paint your randomness, dynamism & desire to show your "art of living" to the world.

I'm a very physical person. I like to run and I like to work out.

The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered

Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I have a purpose," and the other goods as well.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.

Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.

No religion but blasphemes a little.

The essence of poetry is will and passion.