I don't know if I was the baddest. People kind of saw me in that light.

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

Stop competing, stop judging, stop comparing, stop blaming and better you, for you.

Please don't ask me to remember things that are going on around me... I have a dozen other lives I do that for every day in my head.

If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

Christian love is loving without counting the cost. This is the lesson of the Good Samaritan; this is the lesson of Jesus.

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result