I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.

I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?

You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that anymore.

But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.

Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.

The value of life depends on the amount of pure love that you are giving away.

Entrepreneur, you're either raising the bar of excellence or, you're exhaling at the bar which is expensive.

She who is even once unjust can not complain if the like is expected of her again.

My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces.

My face hasn't matured as I've grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.

Your body will never be familiar.

When you resort to shouting in conflict, you are reacting in the flesh. You have lost control of the only person you can control: yourself.

I'm Australian. I'm assimilated. I was born here - how ocker do I have to be?

It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car.

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.