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

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.

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.

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.

Just do what you do best.

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

The glass bottle does not know its own contents. It has no idea whether it is a vessel for the most delicious apple cider, a lovingly crafted wine, or a bitter poison.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

We are really on track for a soft landing. There are no balloons popping.

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.

If you had five photos of anuses, I could not point mine out.

Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell?

I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to

The way I was singing the songs was jazz