I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that but I know that's just American society.

You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.

Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.

Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

A lion never roars after a kill.

Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never.

It is feeling and not reasoning that drives one to prayer.' -Emma to Charles

You can't be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live

Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and shot.

Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons.

You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument.

Whatever the polls do between now and then, winning is what matters.

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

Art is an articulator of the soul's uncensored purpose and deepest will.

And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.