Quotes by Anthony Lewis

“We were on the third floor of an apartment building, no food, no water, no nothing. Bodies floating by, ... The police knew we had to do what we had to do.”

“I like the head coaches at all of these programs…thats one of the main reasons theyre my top four schools--because theyve got some great coaches there,”

“Oklahoma States program is similar to my high school in the sense that were both rebuilding as programs, and were both coming up,”

“Bond was something we knew about but never got to see. We wanted to watch but we were too young.”

“We grew up even a lot from last week. Even with all the dropped balls and fumbled, we never stopped believing in ourselves.”

“The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.”

“I really dont have an answer. Sometimes, our heads are not in the game. You have a blowout against a team and you expect to have another one. Any time you beat a team and they come back and beat you, it takes a little out of you.”

“We defended him as hard as we could; but he made a lot of tough shots in the paint against us.”

“I really cant explain it, but Im proud of the way we fought and I just hate to see it end like this. Im proud of the season that we had, but Id rather for it to end in the playoffs than end without going.”

“Its all changing and getting better all the time. Id like to think the red, black and white logo that goes up on the Washington Sports & Entertainment property reminds us all of those dynamics, that change and that progress.”

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.