Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

That's what makes it so fun to be on a team. You're sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it's going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.

Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.

Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.

Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.

I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.

I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.

I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.

My bike is my gym, my wheelchair and my church all in one. I'd like to ride my bike all day long but I've got this thing called a job that keeps getting in the way.

My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.

No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.

The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.

The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.

We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.

When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.

You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

Currently the green crab is viewed only as a pest species. The crab tends to eat what we eat. Its incredibly tough. And generally speaking its presence in the water means fewer clams and lobsters. So wed like to turn around these negatives and make them into a positive.

Its the most pleasurable experience in the world When youre on a great team and you get hot your teammates milk you dry they wear you out and theres nothing like being on a great team.

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.

The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.

I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

Promoting job creation and economic growth in the Hudson Valley is one of my top priorities in Congress.

We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we've already been seeing in Colorado continue.

The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.

We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress.

We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.

Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.

Growth is a painful process.

The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.

Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.