My parents were my heroes and my role models. So I thought long and hard over decisions that I would make because I never wanted to disappoint them and break their hearts.

The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.

A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.

Life is simple. Make good decisions and good things happen. Make bad decisions and bad things happen.

A loser is someone who makes excuses and alibis and blames everyone else for their losses and failures.

People that don't know me think that basketball is my life 24/7. Trust me, there is much more to my life. My number one priority in my life is my family.

Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.

One day to see that headline, not that someone won a basketball championship, but to see that a cure for cancer has been found, will be a great day for mankind.

Looking back, I remember telling my daughters that we didn't have money, pizzazz and a lot of the things we have today, but we had so much love and we lived like millionaires.

It is time for everyone to sit down -the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity-and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.

You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.

I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

Just for tonight, let's pretend I'm not a priest and you're not crazy. We're just two normal human beings having a good time. Just a man and a woman at a rip-off carnival, living in the moment.

Trust thyself only and another shall not betray thee.

Every time someone asks me who I want to work with, my answer is always the same: whoever wants to work with me that won't want to get their ego stroked.

I looked around. As flock leader, everyone was expecting me to make a decision. Jeb's presence here would bring uncertainty, chaos, probably danger. It would perk up my day.

I’m not comfortable with comfort. I’m only comfortable when I’m in a place where I’m constantly learning and growing.

I'm Kevin Nealon, and that's news to me.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

Allah is al-Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give.