Coach Bruce Weber told me in a meeting that all I have to do is play pretty well. The rest read more

Coach Bruce Weber told me in a meeting that all I have to do is play pretty well. The rest of the guys are doing well now. It takes a lot of pressure off Dee and especially myself. Luther and Deron and all the assists and rebounds and all the points that were lost, somebody has to make them up. In reality, you can't do all that.

It's so much better to desire than to have.

It's so much better to desire than to have.

"Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!"[Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I read more

"Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!"[Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you", quoted in Saturday Review, April 5, 1958]

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit read more

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

A lot of guys get upset in that situation, ... but he was able to shrug it off. With a read more

A lot of guys get upset in that situation, ... but he was able to shrug it off. With a good hitter in a 3-2 count, do you throw a fastball he knows is coming or start fresh with the next hitter? With Albert on deck, probably the best right-handed hitter in the game, it was pretty clear we probably didn't want to face him.

We're not going to leave the well dry. We've got a good group of young kids that have come along read more

We're not going to leave the well dry. We've got a good group of young kids that have come along and they're going to be good again next year. That's what I wanted to see. I didn't want to see the program go down. We've got a chance to build it up again.

It was a big help. I was very appreciative of everything I received.

It was a big help. I was very appreciative of everything I received.

I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the read more

I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.

Three weeks into the NFL season, it's hard to say which team is the best in the business, ... So read more

Three weeks into the NFL season, it's hard to say which team is the best in the business, ... So far, I've got it narrowed down to Tampa Bay, Cincinnati and [the University of Southern California].