Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.

I actually had less time and the exact same budget on Hairspray, which was few years ago and this is a much bigger movie [then Rock of Ages]. That's the way studios do it now.

Crafting, or 'making things,' has always been a delightful pastime of mine because it requires putting common elements together in order to achieve a lovely something that nobody needs.

O beautiful white land, olives and wild anemone and violet mingled among the shale, and purple wings of little winter-butterflies say, here Psyche, the soul, lies.

One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment.

I got every Dan Shaughnessy book known to man.

In many cases, you're forced to make deals that are not the deal you'd make.

Celebrity is a currency with an exchange rate almost as strong as anonymity.

The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.

Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.