It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

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?

One day u will be the message...a message for those who still alive...

They will stare. They will stand to the side and watch her be alone.

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

When I look around I think this, this is good enough; And I laugh at whatever life brings because when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff and when I look up, I just trip over things.

Government! Government! What do I get for all I give, I'd like to know! Potholes and bombs!

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale.

What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.

Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.