The best servant does his work unseen.
In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.
There's a term, agape, you hear used a lot with charismatic religious groups, that it's this more pure love of caring, of sharing of concern and understanding. I think players and teams have to come to that at some point in the season to become successful. Maybe not "personal friends," but they become teammates at the highest level of that term.
I care about systematically playing basketball. If the spacing isn't right, if guys are standing on top of each other, if there aren't lanes to be provided, or rebounders available to offensively rebound the ball, or we don't have defensive balance when a shot goes up, all of these things are fundamental basketball. I follow it.
My accountant tells me I can't be a California resident anymore. I spend too much of my time in New York.
Not everyone has a purpose.
I'm not railing, 'This is inadequate' or 'This isn't right. ' Just show me what will work.
I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.
And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
The charm of smoking a cigarette from the point of view of the people who smoked them, and I was one of those people for many, many years, is an amazing pleasure and a hit that some people say, and I've never done heroin, but some people say that it rivals the heroin hit, so there is that pleasure. The-it kills you the same way that heroin kills you.