My mom gave me unconditional support and unfailing love. You can't get any better than that. That's why I've never been afraid to lose.

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

Don’t be afraid to change. Without change, there is no life.

With your, love touch someone's heart, feel their soul, enjoy their bliss, share your joy, and then become their friend.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don't always do the right thing on our way to rightness.

Women have a greater verbal capacity.

I loved being in the Senate. That was a wonderful experience.

Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.

Life should be lived as play.

I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

I tell my students, if you are going to spend days and months and years with someone, you had better like that person!