Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.

The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.

Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of caring - fiercely caring

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

If you want to be a Champion, you've got to feel like one, you've got to act like one, you've got to look like one.

You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches

The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Many, many times, the kids with the less talent become the better athletes because they're more dedicated to achieving their full potential.

I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.

Just do what you do best.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.

I played basketball and soccer but they are very different games, obviously. However, playing any kind of sport always helps you develop physically.

Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature, and it's agreed that he was always a great writer.

The highest God and the innermost God is one God.

War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

Things not worth doing are not worth doing well.

Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.