When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

If ISIS represents Islam, then the KKK represents Christianity

I don't want to grow old thinking ''what if I had done...''. I avoid the ''should have's'' and take ACTION.

You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

You have to have a lifestyle if you live in LA, otherwise it's deadly.

I'm away so much I've had to learn to cook, and I find it relaxing after filming. I make stews and liver and bacon, and an Italian mate taught me how to make a mean puttanesca sauce.

It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church.

The ice caps are melting now. They're not going to refreeze next year just because we reduce our emissions. We're going to live in that world. So plan for it.

Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.

It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.

I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.