“When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside,...” — Oscar Robertson Quote

When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.

The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me.

I don't want to put myself in a small block. That will be limiting myself and no actor wants to do that.

I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh, and Sue Grafton.

I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work.

A piece of sculpture has to be more than a block of wood.