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

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.

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

You develop a team to achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. All of us alone are weaker, by far, than if all of us are together.

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness in the dust of daily life has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.

A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his history and his wants.

I wanted to be a jockey.

Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.

I'm grateful for everything I have. I'm grateful for it all. I'm grateful for love most of all because I have a lot of it in my life.

A team is a group of players who support one another on court and who think of the group before they think of themselves

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

Where there is no peace, prayers are not heard.

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.