If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.

I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?

You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that anymore.

But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

I have dedicated my life to a doomed struggle against reality and the things that cannot be otherwise

There’s no greater feeling that brings joy to the heart like peace because we can do nothing well without joy, and a good conscience.

Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.

In order to save the planet it would be necessary to kill 350,000 people per day.

I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

I don't like guys who are conventional. I'm an achiever; he has to be an achiever. I admire drive, I admire ambition. I like a guy who keeps my on my toes.

I'm not here to win a popularity contest. I'm here to work and have a career. Let the haters hate. I'm ready for the criticism.

Worship and worry cannot live in the same heart: they are mutually exclusive.