Great rivalries don't have to be built on hatred. They're built on respect, on a respect for excellence.

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

Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake.

I'm never going to say the word "retire." If I feel like having a match when I'm 70 years old and I think I can go out there and tear it up, then I'm going to do it.

Nirvikalpa samadhi is a state of no mind, beyond the ten thousand states of mind, where there is nothing but perfection, where the self no longer exists...the ego dissolves into immortality.

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green.

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.

You will never become rich, until you hate poverty

Andreotti had style and class; Berlusconi does not

I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.