There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind
The most important thing is team morale.
The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus.
Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game. . . about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.
The key statistic is still to get to the foul line.
As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.
Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game.
The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original.
Writing, painting, singing -- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.
I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.
The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases; Why is it (I'm thinking of the careful moulding round the stonework archways) that in this time, such elaborate defences keep things that are no longer (much) worth defending?