Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated

A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time

Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

The sacred fire burns in our heart.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Hey, bro...So there's like 7,000 paparazzi outside. Maybe two of you guys can roll over, and one of you can grab the Ferrari, and then we can just split? Thanks, bro.

I'm a big music person. I compare a lot of my emotions to how something sounds.

Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil.

Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.

It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.

My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together.

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great.