Growing up, Magic Johnson was my idol. He was a good example. He could always pass the ball extremely well and get his teammates involved.

Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable.

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. - Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them.

I try to anticipate exactly where my teammates are going to be. Sometimes I look good. Sometimes I look bad.

Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.

Passing is contagious. There's nothing better than making the pass that gives someone an easy hoop.

I don't care what sport you're talking about. What you see with great franchises is structure - a structure that doesn't just take you from year to year, but day to day.

Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.

He moves in darkness as it seems to meNot of woods only and the shade of trees.

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

The fact I want...no, I need for us to be exclusive until we part ways when we head off to college

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Every issue of life is determined not by external conditions and things, but by one's consciousness.

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.

Breathe and don't try to be perfect.

Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.

I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.