I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

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

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.

I know it's not a one man team win or lose.

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?

Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

You have to raise $100 million, probably, to be serious.

It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text.