My overall point is that 'one and dones' are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.

Lust likes to rush, while love hates to wait.

When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success.

I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.

Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.

The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed.

You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.

I almost cried the other day listening to ‘Vogue’ by Madonna.

And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.