“In order to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them.”

“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.”

“We are looking for a tongue that speaks with reverence for life, searching for an ecology of mind. Without it, we have no home, no place of our own within the creation. It is not only the vocabular...”

“But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.”

“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe wh...”

“Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule.”

“It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic”

“Inspiration may come from many places but motivation - the love of life, daily drive and the will to thrive - that must come from you from within”

“Not everyone may not think the way you do.”

“I think you're wrong.""Think what you like.”

“To think, to think, even with a split second left - to think was the only hope.”