I have lived long enough to learn that the worst kind of beings, are human beings.

You must be sure that you give back something that's beneficial to the game. Any of the teaching you do must be for the benefit of the men who play.

We are not going to play them; they are going to play us.

Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.

Treat each player as your own son/daughter if you can...the parents have invested in you.

Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.

Unless you plan to out-rebound and out-shoot everyone you play, then you better learn to handle the ball.

I'm not against taking shots, but I am against taking bad shots.

Don't let a week go by without conferences with each player, you can't teach it all on the floor.

The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!

Goals get clearer when you place your focus on a committed long term vision that includes integrity and well formed steps

For ye will know not love, if ye knoweth not your God.

...wary as any burnt child with an unfamiliar fire to contend with.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

I play myself on everything I do.

Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that will lead them to their final destination.

I'm very fortunate. I'm not much of a self-promoter or anything.

All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.