Never lower your target ; increase your actions.
As a newcomer, I was often expected to carry the bags of the older players, or get them burgers. That can make you feel pretty miserable.
If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.
I take my sport damned seriously. Basketball is my life. There are other people who go into important games as if they were any other game. I'm a brooder and I spend a lot of time thinking about my opponent, about the things he can do and about what I have to do to win. I don't think I'll ever be able to change that.
I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.
I thought basketball was a game for women. My mother played basketball, and so did my sister.
I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to read poems.
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
Do you guys remember that woman who disappeared a few years ago, Chandra Levy? Do you remember her? I found this fascinating. Apparently, the day she disappeared, she had gone on her computer, and the last website she ever visited was an online map of the park where her body was found. That's true. I just hope that if I ever disappear, people don't look for me based on the last websites I visited.
I loved New York, but I never quite felt like New York was my home either.
I can't see any hope but a second front. The psychological effect would be great, even if they could not wade all the way to Berlin in 15 to 20 minutes.