I was particularly happy to do a potential franchise where I was not putting on a mask or a pair of tights.

If I wasn't playing basketball, I would be in the streets.

Of course, in college, you're traveling, especially when you're with Duke basketball, but in the NBA, it's on a whole entire level.

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.

I thought it was destiny that I was going to play basketball.

Let's not get caught up in the D.C. trap of Democrats versus Republicans. When you're in Alaska it's about what's important for Alaska.

Sometimes evil is in the form of a malignant clown, and sometimes evil is in the form of policy and legislators, and sometimes it's a grinning death mask and it has something more viscerally terrifying about it.

As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.

India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil.

In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball.

Once your computer is pretending to be a neural net, you get it to be able to do a particular task by just showing it a whole lot of examples.

A central task for any campaign is to develop a narrative: a short, simple story explaining where we are, how we got here and where we need to go.

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

Your primary job is to be a football player, and you've got to accomplish that task before you go out and do anything else, really.

I love traveling. I love basketball.

There's an art to basketball; there's a passion to it.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

It's probably a lot cooler than wearing jeans and a T-shirt. Once I put on the mask, I don't even realize that it's there. They're molded off of our faces, so they fit really well.