Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.

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

LOVE, is the most powerful thing that makes my world turn upside down.

If someone from the government tries to put his hands on your money... run away as fast as you can and tell the nearest conservative.

I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.

Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.

Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.

I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.

Id love to a duet with Luther Vandross.

The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.

you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.