Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.

God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

Here's how I'm going to beat you. I'm going to outwork you. That's it. That's all there is to it.

It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.

You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.

No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.

I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?

Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end.

I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.

Read, read read. Read everything.