Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

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

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.

To hold power in this world is to know things that others do not want to know.

...love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow...

I was raised with hippie parents, so I get down with the positive. I don't pay attention to the negative.

We all have powers within us that we don't know exist until we're tested. There are no limitations to what you can do if you have the determination.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

I think the movies that don't try to please people are movies that you respect more in the end.

Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.

It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in a balloon is perfect.

A business can be started with very little money.