Effort is fully replenishable. There is no need to save any of it. Leave every bit you have on the playing field

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

I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they’re always being perverty when I’m around.

The hatred of those who hate me is like a boomerang to them

He was the smell of winter rain and the sound of his predator’s heartbeat

This is Christmas – the season of perpetual hope.

What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?

A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

Old age is a woman's hell.

Do not waste your time on light, weak, milk­toast ministries and books

I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.