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.

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.

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

My job is not to scream and yell, my job is to cheer you and be positive. If you miss four shots, I'm still going to pass to you.

See with your mind, Speak with your heart, Touch with your eyes, Love with your entire being.

I’d eat a picnic in Hades with him.

Please understand. Please forgive me.I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful.Don't hate me.I still love you.

Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

Age holds absolutely no fear for me. There is so much enjoyment ahead.

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence of poverty.