I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots

Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth

If you want to go quickly, go by yourself - if you want to go farther, go in a group.

How competitive can you be without losing your discipline?

Encourage 'random' picks on the ball because they cannot be scouted

Sometimes you will hate me because I will tell you the truth about your game. And the truth can hurt/humble you

Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have.

If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do

(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

I just think a guy that knows how to play when you put him on a good team, he can be really good.

His hatred for her was now as solid as the boards he lay on, as the stones ringing the firepit.

Luck is blind, they say. It can’t see where it’s going and keeps running into people…and the people it knocks into we call lucky! Well, to hell with luck if it's like that, I say!

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.

It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

I have been a voracious reader for years.

The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.