The key statistic is still to get to the foul line.

You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.

Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.

Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

A lion never roars after a kill.

Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

Great is the mercy of God.

A great leader is almost always a great follower for he knows what to learn and from whom.

Feb. 9, 1999 Dear Friend, Without your previous support, Bill Clinton and I would not have won our victories for the American people in 1992 and 1996. ... And to win in 2000, I need you by my side.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to feel I'm the best so I can compete well. A lot of times, my chief rival is just me.