When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

I hold the door for the ladies – I’m a gent.

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

My job is to play quarterback, and I’m going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

It is right to give every man his due.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

I have such respect for ‚Democracy Now!‘

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

To not be modest about it, you’ll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I’ve worked with have done their best work by far with me.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I’d love to do something production wise for her.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I’ll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Respect the burden.

If the team keeps changing then everything has to keep changing.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

I’d love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

Our best thoughts come from others.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don’t follow fashion.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

I don’t think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it’s something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems – members come and go – and some of the world’s biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!