...and that's what separates the professionals from the taxpayers

Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable.

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. - Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them.

I try to anticipate exactly where my teammates are going to be. Sometimes I look good. Sometimes I look bad.

Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.

Passing is contagious. There's nothing better than making the pass that gives someone an easy hoop.

I don't care what sport you're talking about. What you see with great franchises is structure - a structure that doesn't just take you from year to year, but day to day.

Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.

Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?

For every departed glory there is always a new discovery

Once you do a character in Hollywood and people haven't seen you before, they put you in a box and they think that's all that you can do and it's hard to get people to take a risk on you.

Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer... He may sometimes keep us long waiting...but He will never send us empty away.

Whoever said ignorance was bliss was shortsighted.

Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!

I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it.

It's hard to be driven when you're being driven.

When things start to happen, and the path does reveal itself to us, we become afraid of carrying on

We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die.