Life is so fragile.

For a while, I loved everything about it, every single aspect of what was supposed to be a job. The training - I loved to train. I loved the traveling. I dug being in the locker room. I didn't mind icing and heat. I dug it. It was like, 'Cool. I'd rather do this than anything.'

You don't get the ball and dribble; you get it and move it.

When you pass laterally, you screen away.

I've always found myself watching the NBA game more, even when I was coaching college. So I'll probably gravitate toward doing something in the NBA.

The one thing I'm good at is taking things day by day.

Talent always helps. Makes the coach look good.

There's not that many great swimmers from Brooklyn.

Shooting is a skill you can develop. It's repetition and confidence.

All my siblings went to college, and my parents stressed getting school work done first before we could play.

I have family and friends who are policemen and are close to my heart.

The better players you get, the better coach you are.

I would have liked to play in New York and be close to my family and friends, but since there is nothing I can do about it, I really don't care where I go.

I just want to be part of a team and get a chance to play a lot.

I have read that I was a Bill Bradley type. I wish I was a Bradley. He was one of the best. He helped his team win two championships, and that's the ultimate.

As for my speed, I'm not the fastest, but just like in other sports, you learn to stay away from your weaknesses and make more use of your strengths: my shooting ability, court awareness, rebounding, and helping out defensively.

I always felt most at home on a basketball court, dating all the way back to when I was growing up in Brooklyn.

I just always loved the game and really loved playing the game.

The older you get, you can't take time off as much as you'd like to.

It takes a lot to be a good player. It takes a lot to be a winning team.

Whatever you wind up doing in life, things aren't handed to you.

Being around greatness is always a thrill.

In life, you always look at the total picture, not just a segment of it.

If you asked a baseball pitcher from the '50s what a middle reliever was, he'd laugh at you. In the '50s, everyone pitched complete games.

Being a great basketball player is only part of who you are.

When you play injured, you're still judged like you're 100 percent. You know you can't do all you want to, but you want to get back to help your teammates.

Being injured helps you appreciate your health in general.

I've played a long time and had success in a lot of areas. The one thing that eludes a lot of us is a championship. The teams that get there have guys willing to make adjustments, to sacrifice. I'm willing.

My game hasn't changed too much. I'm doing the same things as I did in college, except I'm outside more. It's tough to go inside in the pros because the players are bigger.

The biggest difference between college and pros is a lot more games and better competition day in, day out. You don't really have any nights off.

A lot of things have happened that I wish I could have just walked away from. But you wind up saying, 'This is what it is - how does it get better, or how does it affect you, or how can you influence it in a positive way?'

My four years in college, I cherished very much the opportunity to be able to stay at home.

Ray Allen is one of the fittest guys in the league.

American values come by helping countries fight corruption to build stability. American values flow through tackling climate change and building energy independence. American values come through humanitarian assistance whereby we try to stop catastrophes from happening.

It can be frustrating that, despite widespread support for common sense gun safety measures, Congress is moving at a snail's pace. But remember that great change takes time.

The more we remove the need for individual members of Congress to raise private election funds, the more our representatives can focus on the things they were elected to do, and the more time they will have to cross party lines and erase the divisions that pollute our national dialogue.

As I'm learning, Republicans seem to only care about deficits when a Democrat is in the White House.

The most powerful force when changing people's hearts and minds is a person-to-person conversation.

Anytime somebody loses a presidential election, there are lots of explanations.

We have a long, proud history of making things here in Connecticut. We're home to large companies like Electric Boat, Pratt & Whitney, and Sikorsky, as well as their thousands of suppliers.

There's no denying that if I were designing a health care system from scratch, I'd build a Medicare for All system.

Rarely do political contributions lead to direct quid pro quo transactions - donations for votes - and those that cross this line normally get caught.

There's zero evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that more guns leads to less gun crime.

I think most of the Washington foreign policy establishment exists in a fantasy world when it comes to Syria. They fundamentally don't understand that Russia and Iran, from the beginning, had much more at stake in Syria than the United States did. Russia and Iran were going to do everything possible in order to keep Bashar al-Assad in power.

Russia's number-one goal is to pull apart the E.U., to pull apart NATO.

ISIL is a terrorist army like we have never seen - they cannot be ignored.

One of the smartest investments we can make in Connecticut is in job training programs.

Our mental health system is broken, and we should fix it.

I arrived in Hartford as a 25-year-old naive state legislator who believed in universal health care. I rose to become the 29-year-old Chairman of the legislature's Health Committee.

In Connecticut, we have passed some of the strongest anti-gun-violence laws in the nation. We don't restrict anybody's Second Amendment rights.