“...literacy is as vital as food, security, limiting population growth, and control of the environment.Education, after all, is the one issue that affects every other one. I think of it in the same way as dropping a pebble into a pond and getting a ripple effect. Educated people make more money and are more likely to escape poverty. Educated parents raise healthier children....The list goes on, just as ripples in a body of water emanate outward.”

“...literacy is as vital as food, security, limiting population growth, and control of the environment.Education, after all, is the one issue that affects every other one. I think of it in the same way as dropping a pebble into a pond and getting a ripple effect. Educated people make more money and are more likely to escape poverty. Educated parents raise healthier children....The list goes on, just as ripples in a body of water emanate outward.”

“There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.”

“I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.”

“We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.”

“All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.”

“It isn't what you do, but how you do it.”

“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.”

“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”

“Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.”

“I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.”

“There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.”