You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

If ISIS represents Islam, then the KKK represents Christianity

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

Greatness always inspires you to be great.

Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.

We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.

If people would turn their TVs off for half the time, study science and practice an instrument, they'd be virtuosos and have Ph.Ds!

Real creativity comes only out of silence.

Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.

But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.

It’s hard to look in charge when you’re hunched over like Quasimodo.

There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch.