I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.'

I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking.

I'm not a guy that believes you've got to have a lot of experience to have success in the playoffs.

Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good.

Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball.

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.