The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.

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

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.

Tomorrow’s sun is on it’s way – a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.

Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

At the end of your life there will be many people you won't be acquainted with.Make sure you are not among them.

I want people to listen to the lyrics of each song and absorb the music fully before they look at me and make a judgment about what they think my music will or should sound like.

I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.