During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions

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

Time is not made of atoms to manipulate it back.

My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

I guess people might just get tired of my face.

It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar.

The short way to happiness is through kindness and sensitivity.

Everything that I write about is a kernel of something that probably happened to me or one of my writers that I've co-opted and made it seem like it's mine.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

The thrill of doing television versus features is in television you get to focus more on the characters.

Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled, sozzled, and blotto.

My thing is that I'm in love with love. Actually, I'm in love with the possibility of true love. Which could be considered a major problem.