“I always told my team two things: Never expect them to give you anything and always expect them to make the next shot.”

Everything a captain does in a team room is done to keep the team loose.

I keep telling myself I don’t practice enough to be a perfectionist. And I don’t practice enough to get mad. So my temper has subdued and my attitude is subdued.

I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don’t know where I fit in.

When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.

The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.

Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.

Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.

There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.

In the industry, you do need some ethics – if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry.

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.