With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season.

I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.

Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

It's not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game. It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let's put it on display and have some fun.

You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.

Follow your dreams and make the most of every experience.

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players.

I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.

I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.

Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself.

Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.

Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' So to do something with just your voice is hard.

You might be a redneck if your local ambulance has a trailer hitch.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.

There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.