"Chick Hearn taught me how to play basketball, how to think about basketball. He taught me how to love basketball."

“That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.”

“We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now... but it will grow again... like the trees.”

“Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.”

“If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying.”

Source : "Will Progressive Field renovations shrink Cleveland Indians' 2015 payroll? Hey, Hoynsie!" by Paul Hoynes, www.cleveland.com. November 20, 2014.

“And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.”

“A community is easily divide when their perception of the same thing is different”

“I'm just an Irish biddy.”

“Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.