He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
I wanted to avoid service, because I was on the road to becoming a professional basketball player.
If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.
I take my sport damned seriously. Basketball is my life. There are other people who go into important games as if they were any other game. I'm a brooder and I spend a lot of time thinking about my opponent, about the things he can do and about what I have to do to win. I don't think I'll ever be able to change that.
I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.
I thought basketball was a game for women. My mother played basketball, and so did my sister.
I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to read poems.
In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I'm very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.
Loneliness is a very special place, Silently silently you touch my face
They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.
The reason I fight for the arts as well as against hunger is because the arts are the qualitative way, are the effective way, are the traditional way we learn to make value decisions about who and what we are.