The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it.

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

Awake. Reach out. Press onward.

What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?

You are the dreamBut I’ve had wake up calls

It's easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance...after all, they are the ones who tied those strings in the first place

Let your life be poetic enough for others to remember it

Tell me where are the flashbacks they all warned us would come?

I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

For most of my career I've been very lucky to have avoided major injuries.

How can one live without hope and longing?