Conservative coaches have one thing in common; they are unemployed.

Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.

They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

Winners bring reality up to their vision. Losers bring their vision down to reality.

Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.

Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.

Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.

Most of my cliches aren't original.

Remember your six P's - Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.

Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to love one another because you're going to die anyway.

A star does not compete with other stars around it

If you wait four or five years between records, it better be a masterpiece, you know? And if you keep putting them out, you're saying, 'Hey, here's 10 more songs'.

Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!

My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.

[The main character] is in a forever-growing process. I feel the movie [everybody Loves Somebody] did that very well and not finishing off as "a woman's life ends when she finds the right guy".

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.

You never want to make a "message movie," but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.