If I aint happy, nobody's happy.

God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

Here's how I'm going to beat you. I'm going to outwork you. That's it. That's all there is to it.

It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.

You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.

No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.

I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

Believe in yourself. Know you have what it takes, to make excellence a good habit. Focus on doing excellent work and use discipline to make it happen.

Life is a nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real.

I will lose the habit of stars in the heavens, as frozen water loses the habit of snowflakes. I will take my frozen body, and give it to the young goats that they might graze it.

Knowledge is the ability to love, the ability to feel, the ability to probe the depths and the heights of life. It is the experience of the experiencer, and at the same time, it is beyond that.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we will be at a disadvantage...we would look at considering perhaps duties that would offset that cost.

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.