I want to have all of my faculties.
You know, I've always told him (Larry Brown) I wanted the relationship that Michael Jackson. . . Michael Jordan, I'm sorry. . . . I wanted the same relationship with him like Phil Jackson and Michael Jordan had.
I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'.
You have to go through good times and bad times to get where you're trying to go.
Practice? I mean, listen, we're talking about practice. Not a game. Not a game. Not a game. We're talking about practice. Not a game. Not the game. Not the game. We're talkin about practice, man. We're talkin about practice. We're taklin about practice, man. What are we talkin about? Practice. We're talkin about practice, man.
I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.
I'd rather have more heart than talent any day.
One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate. A stable compound, looking like common salt, but much heavier. This was the magic of chemistry, to see xenon trapped into a crystal.
The Christian, the Mohammedan, the Jew - their emphasis is on the second: to die as soon as possible, to surrender to God. Prayer is their way. Prayer means dying, dying and disappearing as a person, becoming part of the universal, a surrender, a trust in God. The whole emphasis is on how to surrender your ego, sacrifice your ego, at the altar of the divine.
I believe that only a subset of us is meant to lead. The rest want to follow.
The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.