Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.

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.

I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all time who he is.

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.

Family is a transitive property.

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

There is more inside you than you dare think.

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.

In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.