Leadership starts at the top.

Play hard, play smart, play together, have fun.

You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.

To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

You get to do things for people who will never pay you back and they say you never have had a perfect day until you've done something for someone who will never pay you back.

Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

The big thing is to make a winning effort. Im not obsessed with wins.

I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.

If I can pay the bills, I'm happy.

There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.

I really don't think that Detroit was any different than New York of Boston or Philadelphia. Kids always wanted to listen to music outside because that's where they hung out with their friends.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

We suffer one of two things. Either the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. You've got to choose discipline, versus regret, because discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.

God doesn't just give us grace; He gives us Jesus, the Lord of grace.

The law of your mind is the law of belief. This means to believe in the way your mind works, to believe in belief itself.

...it was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet.

I appreciate and enjoy my age.

And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.