You can't ever totally know what's inside of someone else, or see the kind of will someone like Magic has. You have to rely on your instincts to find people who hate losing and know how to win.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

I've seen a lot in my life. I've seen a lot of winning. I've seen a lot of testing times. I think when you're tested, you really find out what you're made of.

To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction.

Anything can happen with hard work and dedication

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win?

I'm just ultracompetitive. I will be till they put me in the grave.

A foolish man enjoys the company of prostitutes

The more challenging the obstacles in life, the greater the satisfaction in overcoming them.

As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.

As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.

Every fiction has its base in fact.

They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.

Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.

Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.