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Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.

Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.

I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn't have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.

There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.

When I played basketball, I spent hours On the court practicing. When i became a body-builder, I was in the gym all the time. Like most beginners, I didn't really know what I was doing, but the more I did it, the more I loved it. I guess you could say I was a gym rat. Seeing my body change made me come back for more.

When our assists lead to baskets, that's us playing our best, and we begin knocking down shots.

The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.

There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you make a mistake and you give up a run or some points. In these two sports, if you make a mistake, it could cost you your life.

I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.

The goal in life is the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing--in marriage, at your job, in the community, for your country. Make the effort to contribute in whatever way you can. You may do it materially or with time, ideas, or work. Making the effort to contribute is what counts. The effort is what counts in everything.

Chick Hearn taught me how to play basketball, how to think about basketball. He taught me how to love basketball.

I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big town, like in the movie Hoosiers. That is one of the things that attracts me to entrepreneurs.

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.

They say I couldn't play football, I was too small. They say I couldn't play basketball, I wasn't tall. They say I couldn't play baseball at all and now everyday of my life, I ball.

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.