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

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.

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.

I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than 'Price' - the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It's an American institution!

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation.

We know that if al Queda or one of these terrorist organizations were to get a weapon of mass destruction from Iraq, that they would have no hesitation about using it to catastrophic consequences; the potential is for hundreds of thousands of casualties.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Gotham Games called me, and I could not be more thrilled. I've been waiting to be in a video game forever, so when they called there was no hesitation.

In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.

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

Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.