Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

This monument is going to be built as a symbol.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits youve got him.

The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory

To love someone is nothing to be loved by someone is something but to be loved by the one you love is everything.

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love is everything

Of course there are people who would like to eat breakfast without the screams of toddlers all around them, but those people should get over themselves and stop being stuck up and idiotic.

I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.

I just aspire to be the best I can be. I want to work hard and set one goal at a time for myself.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.

I'm just going to say it: I'm pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it's about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we've done - or failed to do - with our personal values.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.

I do believe in God. I don't believe in God as a person, but I believe in God as a state of energy and consciousness that we all share.

I've twice run against women opponents, and it's a very different kind of approach. For those of us who have some chivalry left, there's a level of respect... You treat some things as a special treasure; you treat other things as common.

Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names.

Warren Moon and Doug Williams really didn't run that much. That's the negative stereotype when it comes to African-American quarterbacks, that most of us just run. Those guys threw it around. I like to think I can throw it around a little bit.

I did babysit a little bit when I was young. I prefer babysitting for babies. I always loved babies. I was not as great with kids that wanted to be entertained and that wanted to talk.

The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran all contribute to core goals of U.S. policy in those countries.

My life used to be like that game of freeze tag we played as kids. Once tagged, you had to freeze in the position you were in. Whenever something happened, I'd freeze like a statue, too afraid of moving the wrong way, of making the wrong decision. The problem is, if you stand still too long, that's your decision.

When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is any good.

For thousands of years there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know theyre lies youre free.

Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

The replenishing thing that comes with a nap - you end up with two mornings in a day.

I Resist the Temptation to Judge Others.

There is no quick way of making money. People come to you with tips for the races or offer the latest Ponzi scheme, but I can see them coming a mile off. I just go with the adage that if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.

The dawn is overcast the morning lowers And heavily in clouds brings on the day The great the important day big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.

I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.