I try to anticipate exactly where my teammates are going to be. Sometimes I look good. Sometimes I look bad.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Philosophy is the song of conscience and music the of thoughts.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty sickness and captivity would without this comfort be insupportable.

Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.

Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.

There's no amount of money that would make me decide something for a career.

We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.

Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills

judge not that ye be not judged

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together