This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.

People complain that pro athletes make a lot of money; but what they don't understand is that we need a lot of money because we spend a lot of money.

The greatest players fit with the team. They play within the team's style, rather than asking the team to change its style.

It's the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done.

Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

We feel that we are fighting for our lives and our livelihoods.

If I want to average 32 points a game, I can do that easily. It's just eight, eight, eight, eight. No problem. I can do that anytime. That's not being cocky. That's confidence.

I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.

We might make a lot of money but, we also spend a lot of money.

Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.

Every parent wants to see their kids excel.

Peace is the only destination worth searching for.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.

I've always said, not giving too much away, I'm a believer in having all your stars on the pitch.

The shortest distance between two idiots is a conga line.

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right.

I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in my mind.

I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me.

The hooves of the horse! Oh! witching and sweet is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet; no whisper of love, no trilling of bird, can stir me as hooves on the horse have stirred.