Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning

If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to!

Your best players have to unite and inspire the group... otherwise, they'll divide the group

Players with high character get better. Players with a serious approach get better. The fools never get better

The best teams play for each other, not with each other

Your decisions reveal your priorities

Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique

Don't worry about being cool. Worry about being the best

When you know better and you don't do better, you're no better

I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble

Just concentrate on what you're supposed to do

And you know what I realize now? That we're all waiting on something, no matter where we are in life. It's the human condition.

I cherished my time playing high school sports.

I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.

In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in there, we're useless!

The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

Many of our problems are blessings in disguise.

English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.