“The UNLV championship game against Duke, I didn't shoot the last shot....” — Larry Johnson Quote

“The UNLV championship game against Duke, I didn't shoot the last shot. Choked. It took 10 years for me to say that. I had to be in the NBA five, six years for me to say that aloud.”

“Offense is one phase of the game. You have to be able to play the other phases of the game and help your team win.”

“What I want to do for Mom - I want her to be able to understand that she can do anything she wants. I want her to be able to say, 'I've never been to so-and-so,' and go. She deserves that.”

“In an arena, with Girls Aloud, it's a big production and you don't have time to talk to the crowd about the songs.”

“An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.”

“But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.”