The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.

The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.

I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear it is in the mind.

The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.

The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

Thiar ain't no sense In gittin' riled!

I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.

Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?

I have actually seen people contemplate their navels

If someone had told me in 1963 that one day I would be in Congress, I would have said, 'You're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about.'

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

The standard God has for you has nothing to do with approval, and everything to do with purpose.