Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

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

I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

What ardently we wish, we soon believe.

Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.

I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

A loss is not a failure until you make an excuse.

We reach the point where our profession is also our hobby.

I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.

A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone.