No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly. . . and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.
It always feels good to win, it's always tough to lose.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.
Basketball's so much like life: if something's going great, you wait a minute, it will change. If something's going bad, you wait a minute, it will change. So I try to play things on such an even keel, knowing that things are going to change. You take the good with the bad; you don't get too excited, you don't get too down and sometimes that's the hardest thing in the world to do when you're in the midst of it, but that's the best way to handle it.
The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.
I am who I am because of the people who I grew up with and where I'm from.
I enjoy jokes, smiling, and making people smile. I may be a little different, but that's OK, who wants to be normal anyway?
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
Grace is more than God opening the door to salvation; it’s God bringing people in.
The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.
People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves 'naturally' elite; and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves.