I always wanted to teach.

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

The more we understand the simplicity of life, the less complex we shall live.

True love is the tide that pulls out to sea, but always returns to kiss the shore at sunrise.

The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.

..."I ran out of stock around midnight and dropped by a place, got some Chinese." I hoped he meant takeout.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

Live life to the fullest tomorrow may never be.