The first blow is half the battle.
I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.
There's a term, agape, you hear used a lot with charismatic religious groups, that it's this more pure love of caring, of sharing of concern and understanding. I think players and teams have to come to that at some point in the season to become successful. Maybe not "personal friends," but they become teammates at the highest level of that term.
I care about systematically playing basketball. If the spacing isn't right, if guys are standing on top of each other, if there aren't lanes to be provided, or rebounders available to offensively rebound the ball, or we don't have defensive balance when a shot goes up, all of these things are fundamental basketball. I follow it.
My accountant tells me I can't be a California resident anymore. I spend too much of my time in New York.
Not everyone has a purpose.
I'm not railing, 'This is inadequate' or 'This isn't right. ' Just show me what will work.
Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this. . .
One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the roughest mineral.
There is something about a voyage you are barely aware of while you are making it.
Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind. . . and they just go blind. . . they sit around in their huts.