I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

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

Anything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place.

If you are going to quit after a couple of steps, you aren’t going to be the best you can ever be.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

Many roads to take some to joy some to heart ache

My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.

There is no wisdom but in death

You keep a secret inside of you and it feels like a wall that separates you from others.

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.

Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse.

We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.