First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.

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

That is morality, I make myself imagine that it is personal.

I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.

Even when other people don’t expect a lot out of you,you have to take the initiative.

I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin. I'm Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married a man whose female ancestors carried cows home from the pasture

Curled up in bed, I’m young in the old way.

It's fun when you're winning and performing well, but it's also hard because now you get older, you got responsibilities.

Life is short. Help more people.

I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.