If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect.

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.

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.

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To be effective as future organizations, we must know our fellow leaders better, deeper.

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

I'm getting Puppetmasters, too. They're one of my favorites. And they're coming out with new Puppetmasters. I try not to get everything, but I want so much.

I know this... a man got to do what he got to do.

I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.

Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.

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Why was everyone dying? They had all been so alive just yesterday.

Responsibility and commitment are key elements in meeting obligations.