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

He that does good having the unlimited power to do evil deserves praise not only for the good which he performs but for the evil which he forbears.

I am amused by cricket because it seems to take longer than baseball and I like that. It seems like a sport I could have made up it - it takes several days to play and everyone wears sweaters. I can't confess to knowing what's going on at all.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

But there is room now in my heart for more memories carved by a letting go that I could find only by coming home to a place Id never been.

People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.

If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.

I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

I was in Christian broadcasting back in the 1970s. I was director of communications for James Robinson, and I really thought Christian broadcasting was going to be my career. There have been so many twist and turns in my life; of course I haven't been a pastor for almost 22 years, but it was a very important part of my life.

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

You were born an original. Don t die a copy.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey

A hunk of beef raised on Scottish moorland has a very different ecological footprint from one created in an intensive feedlot using concentrated cereal feed, and a wild venison or rabbit casserole is arguably greener than a vegetable curry.

You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

I have rock 'n' roll pumping through my veins.

I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.

Bill Cunningham... he knows fashion better than anybody.

'Friday Night Lights' was kind of like my college years because I did four seasons of that. It was my first series. It was the most time I had with one character, and kind of growing and evolving with the character over that long of a span of time, it just allows you to sort of learn in a completely different way that I had never experienced.

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.