Switch if you have to! It's not the mismatch that beats you, it's the open shot!

Those to whom defense is not important will have the best seat in the game

One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players lives

To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them.

Never marry a beautiful woman. A beautiful woman will leave you. An ugly woman will leave you, too, but so what?

Blocking out is everyday, every drill, all the time. We run sprints every time someone does not blockout.

Some guys smoke. Some guys drink. Some guys chase women. I'm a big barbecue-sauce guy.

The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot.

When I die, they might as well bury me at the finish line at Churchill Downs so they can run over me one more time.

They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression.

I love Vegas. God knows that I know how to find my way around the buffets in Las Vegas.

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything?

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.

We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.

I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.

I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.

I never understood whether the word 'amnesty' is correct or not. Maybe I am not very intelligent but I checked the dictionary to find the meaning.

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

Well we've moved through the funfair a bit – we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.