When you get punched, you have to get up.You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.

The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel.

There are 30 great jobs in the NBA, and I've got one of them.

When you don't have much and you need to be at work, there's no such thing as being sick.

You can have great players, but if they dont want to be coached, what are you going to do?

I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.

You don't think the losing is ever going to end, but when it does end, you get to enjoy it and keep working with it and keep getting it better, and that's where we are.

When you have an intense game, you're going to have arguments. I have no problem with it. I think it's healthy.

The NBA needs more of that 'it's-about-us-against-them' mentality.

I love being in the gym.

There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

The integrity of the game is everything.

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.

You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations - it's a crazy, wild gift.

When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.

With the right to vote, our choice should be for the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us.

I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.