When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.

Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.

I’m a running coach and I am going to continue to run, but I would hope that we are better defensively.

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great.

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential.

I'm the most unracist person around.

I can't remember any regrets, to be honest with you.

Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight.

The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife.

The greatest joy you can get is from giving, and the best thing that you can give is your love.

Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike them from existence, with nary a twinge of grief at their passing.

I mean, electric shock? Isn’t that a bit... electric shock-y?

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.

A leader with integrity has one self, at home and at work, with family and with colleagues. He or she has a unifying set of values that guide choices of action regardless of the situation.

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.

I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.