“You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.”

“When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP, and the MVP in the history of team sports is Bill Russell.”

“I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.”

“I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.”

“I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.”

“People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”

“There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.”

“I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.”

“Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.”

“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the me...”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.”