A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.

A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time

Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple of dudes killed hundreds of thousands. That f****** rules! Yeah!

The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.

I don't know about one moment that has pivoted my career. I do know that one thing that hit me and made me take a few steps back was a year at Steamboat.

Everyone is going to die. Aren't you interested in what's going to happen?

I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

At a party recently I was introduced to Meryl Streep, and it took me a second to get my head around it. You know, that I'm meeting these people now. I'm doing it.

A man of truth must also be a man of care.

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.