Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players.

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

Because God is the giver and source of our life, He has a legitimate claim upon our lives.

Property is theft.

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.

That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.

I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like.

I love music. I'd love to go on Broadway and do a musical there. I just like to kind of go with whatever's inspiring at the moment, and kind of follow that as far as I can.

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.

I'm still a news junkie. I mean, I always was, I am now.