Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters.

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

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

A long leash is not freedom.

We need each other.

From one moment to another memory steps back to rediscover the past

Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around.

The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. "There's nothing left worth saying.

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation.

To write about a place, you have to live there.

Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.