I know I have plenty of enemies, but I'd rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.

Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.

I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.

Success is the best builder of character.

He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.

I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.

If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.

Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field.

All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.

Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.

I guess I'm an actor - just human behaviour's just fascinating to me. I mean, I'd like to be.

My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.