Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

Here's how I'm going to beat you. I'm going to outwork you. That's it. That's all there is to it.

It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.

You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.

No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.

I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?

When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.

Hopes are potential power. It has the innate ability to show the way of life.

Your smile is the gift, all I ever wanted.

My friends are a crayola box. They highlight different colors of my being, representing different aspects of my personalty, I've noticed.

If you put yourself around people that want to be productive, that want to make the most of what they have, then the sky's the limit.

People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We know that experience is great, but it's not enough.

A bullet in the right place can change the world.

To paint a mass simple and big you must keep out all the lights and darks that do not belong to its general value.

for many people traveling can have deep psychological meaning.

This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.

If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you.