Successfully to accomplish any task it is necessary not only that you should give it the best there is in you, but that you should obtain for it the best there is in those under your guidance.
Phil Jackson would fight his own players in practice.
It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.
I feel very fortunate that I'm doing what I wanted to do from the third grade on. I became very interested in the sports broadcasting aspect even at that early age. I'd turn down the sound on the TV and do games in my house - and probably get everybody looking for me to go into a room and lock the door so they didn't have to hear it.
In radio, you are the game, so to speak - you have to describe every aspect. In TV, Ive always felt less is more, and its really a question of my setting up the color analyst more than anything else.
Steve Kerr, now coaching Golden State after eight tumultuous and very inconsistent years at TNT.
In 1957, I was a 16-year-old office boy for the Dodgers.
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Thought is made in the mouth.
The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you.
And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick, he filled a notebook with his thoughts about me… There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug. But too late. But that's when I take out his letters and I read them, and the paper that touched his hand is in mine, and I feel connected to him.