The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.

The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.

Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of caring - fiercely caring

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.

If you want to be a Champion, you've got to feel like one, you've got to act like one, you've got to look like one.

You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Many, many times, the kids with the less talent become the better athletes because they're more dedicated to achieving their full potential.

I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.

Just do what you do best.

I have nothing to do with the partisans. I wish to defy society not in order to improve it, but to hold it at bay no matter what. I suspend my achievements – but also my demands.

By choosing to have a calm response to what seems negative you bring clarity and balance to your message.

Most leaders are indispensable but to produce a major social change many ordinary people must also be involved.

you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.

That's one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if it were to do well. I just try to do a good job with it.

My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist.

The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.