Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.
The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate.
So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.
When I look back, I'm definitely proud of what I did. It kind of allows me to move forward and reset my goals.
When he's healthy, Zach Randolph for the Memphis Grizzlies has always been somebody that has always been very tough to play against.
Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.
If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.
You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying.
It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.
An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
My research process doesn't vary much. I do a little reading to establish a timeline and decide how I'm going to approach the story.
I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of my husbands has ever seen me put my face on.
With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in days, then hours - then in minutes. But there's also an insidious backward creep of deterioration.
I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave until I've eaten mine.
The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their difficulties - the ducking and diving and keeping the world laughing - are perfectly understandable.
Tennis players go into a press conference, and almost every one of them is the same. We do very little differently on a day-to-day basis.
There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.
As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.
I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?
The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.
What I want is that I can match my performances during training so I can be satisfied with myself.
