It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.

The less determined and the less motivated weed themselves out.

Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.

Athletes that can't listen, can condition.

Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.

I do some broadcasting and speaking as well.

Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them

The first shot does not beat you.

I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players

I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.

Trithemius' concern for conservation was rare, indeed, and is a lesson to modern library managers who discard printed volumes, believing that e-books are the only way of the future.

I have this idea that writing is all about divergent thinking colliding with a hurricane of emotions.

Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever.

The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.

The place to observe nature is where you are.

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.

In Hollywood, women hate each other.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

If Russia rises, it means that the USA falls down.