As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.

Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.

Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.

You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.

Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.

When you watch the game, be a student of the game.

Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker

Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.

Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

Coach like the coach you want to be ten years from now.

Words can inspire and words can destroy. Choose your words well.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.

Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.

I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters.

In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born in America.

You can’t coach guts and commitment.

I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.