I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

Love can be simply the absence of tension.

My best writing happens when I’m fighting to produce it.

I found myself being helped down to the car. That sort of help is actually a hindrance. If you ever see someone with a walking stick, that stick, and their arm, are actually a leg.

I love singing. The joy of singing live - I don't think I will ever stop that.

It is right, therefore, that we not just be called Christians, but that we actually be Christians.

We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.

One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.

When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger.

There's a distinct American culture that evolved from the United States founding, and that is what made America great, is what allowed the human being to become.

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.