“It’s not tough at all as long as the fans are yelling, screaming and hollering.”

I played in Joe Louis in a playoff game. I played there when the roof caved in for half a season. The facility is great for basketball because it goes straight up, so you feel like the fans are on top of you.

The Finals are about a test of wills.

The players have to come and play. Today we did.

What I’ve talked about the entire series and throughout this playoffs is about intensity and effort, desire and will of our players.

We joke around a lot with our ballclub.

We were able to get after the rebounds. We were able to control the paint. We were able to be physical down there.

They scored 26 points in three quarters. That’s solid defense.

When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].

Usually, critical words are accompanied by threats, name-calling, and yelling. This verbal abuse can be especially damaging.

It was right after 9/11 and I decided to walk around the grounds of the Pentagon, because I had never been there.

It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’

Leadership is something you earn, something you’re chosen for. You can’t come in yelling, ‘I’m your leader!’ If it happens, it’s because the other guys respect you.

A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.” If he is wise he has not been impoverished. Nor has the fool been enriched. The thief flatters us by stealing. We flatter him by complaining.

Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.