Play and practice like you are trying to make the team.

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

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

I no longer believe there's any such thing as losing a woman. A man loses himself as women slip into the future.

I tried to blink back the tears that just kept coming. Eventually, I gave up and let my sight be obscured.

Death of destiny: dust

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost

Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .