So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.

You are what your record says you are.

If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.

Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.

The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.

Don't ever let good enough be good enough.

You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning

What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.

A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.

Potential means you haven't done anything yet.

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

I'm a TV addict, and I personally really enjoy reality TV.

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

Men should never give up. I never do. I would hate to lose.

I think that women don't bother disguising their desire and pleasure in dressing up, and that men, for whatever reason, tend to be a little more embarrassed.

Who needs enemies when you've got Republican Surrenderists for Obamacare waiting in the wings?

I'm just going to keep dialing it in and keep practicing.

Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.