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.

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.

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.

It was an incredible effort by the Irish down in Tallahassee. Jameis Winston was too tough in the second half; congrats to the Seminoles.

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.

The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.

When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and so I never really think of myself as anything more than just who I always was.

You can get it if you really want

This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.

We are apart and alone, as we must, but at least we are alone together.

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

I can't tell what god will do because I'm not God. I can only take you back to biblical principle.

I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.

There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."