I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.

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

It doesn’t cause me to doubt God’s existence, but it does force me to admit there’s a lot about God I don’t understand.

The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

Next to love, balance is the most important thing.

People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience...I want to give them two hours of just pow.

I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

The incremental approach without a strategy doesn't improve the strategy.

I make lots of casseroles that have protein, veggies, carbs and good fats all together.