I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.

I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.

Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

It's not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game. It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let's put it on display and have some fun.

You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.

Follow your dreams and make the most of every experience.

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players.

I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.

With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season.

Every child ought to be educated.

Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!

I love Chicago. It is my new favorite city. It is the perfect place to do any kind of theater.

Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl).

History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.

Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay.

We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.

I don't like overt traditionalism.

I didn't leave physics because of boredom. I left it because other issues compelled me in a bigger way. And I always say to myself, "When I'm 60, I'd like to go back to what I interrupted."

Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.