The Standard ... is the standard.

It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

Excuses are tools of the incompetent

We don't live in our fears. We live in our hopes.

If our team doesn't face enough adversity early on in a season, I create it. Nothing builds a team like adversity.

You continue to dream the wild dreams that you dream when you were young.

The good teams, the dominant teams, aren't necessarily dominant in stadiums, but they are dominant largely in moments, when they do what's required to get out of stadiums with victories.

I did see the Soul Train picture. That was interesting. I've heard all the jokes. I had it coming.

I'll tolerate you until I can replace you.

I tend to attack the challenges that are right in front of me, the ones that I have today.

More grounded, more humble, more selfless makes us more opportunistic.

Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.

Then how about we start with a shower," he said in the kind of deep voice that made her consider the value of cleanliness.

The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle.

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.

I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.

I don't see us having a problem. It's going to be my job to manage the locker room, anyway, so it will work out.

Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.