Phil Jackson would fight his own players in practice.

It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.

In radio, you are the game, so to speak - you have to describe every aspect. In TV, Ive always felt less is more, and its really a question of my setting up the color analyst more than anything else.

Steve Kerr, now coaching Golden State after eight tumultuous and very inconsistent years at TNT.

If Justin Beiber was 7 feet tall, he'd look like [Meyers Leonard] that.

In 1957, I was a 16-year-old office boy for the Dodgers.

I would never scream at my kids, never raise my voice. But as they often tell me, they were so well behaved that screaming was not necessary.

There are people in New York who feel I should have more of a hometown approach. I feel we have to be a mirror and reflect whats happening on the court.

Game calls cant be just, Oh, by the way, as part of a larger discussion.

I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager.

My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

Do what you think is right. Don't let people make the decision of right or wrong for you.

The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now.

Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough.

A good government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.

I love you' really is the gateway drug of breaking up.

In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

How frustrating it is to be out-argued by someone you know is dead wrong but is more eloquent.

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.