Hard work breeds self-respect.

God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

Here's how I'm going to beat you. I'm going to outwork you. That's it. That's all there is to it.

It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.

You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.

No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.

I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?

The pen is mightier than the sword as long as it doesn't run out of ink.

All battles should be based on principles. And in a battle of principles, it is not the size of the adversary that matters. It is the size of the principle.

Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.

You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

The king just sits there, moving one square at a time. The queen can move so freely. I suppose I’d rather lose the game than forfeit her freedom.

Absence Is To Love, What The Wind Is To Fire, When It's a Small Fire The Wind Kills It But When It's a Real Fire It Intensifies It

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky

What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.

You know it's time to do the laundry when you dry off with a sneaker.