People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.

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

Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that's what everyone said.

Every moment is a fresh new beginning, a wonderful inauguration of the great cosmic journey through the universe. We can do whatever we want. We can change reality at any moment.

I need punk rock. It's the medicine for me, but it's bitter and sickening. If you don't need it - if you're happy and healthy - run toward that.

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.

A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.

Further, bearing up under our own burdens can help us develop a reservoir of empathy for the problems others face.

It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.

I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement.