That's why basketball was so good, because I didn't really need you or anyone else to play it. It would be better if we played four-on-four or five-on-five, but I could go out there alone.

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

God is not a bargaining God. You cannot barter with Him. You must do business with Him on His own terms.

real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks better than words

We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very constraints that they hadimposed upon us.

I need nothing but God and to lose myself in the heart of God.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.

An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence.

I never cared what kind of grade I got.

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.