The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.

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

When I wake I ask myself, how much longer before they will just let me die?" - Tier, Clutch

I want my writing to bring people not just to think of "trees" as they mostly do now, but of each individual tree, and each kind of tree.

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place or another, and tomorrow is a slave to yesterday.

We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly.

A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.

Only Los Angeles could produce a creature such as myself. New York is a boutique city. You have to be wealthy and of privilege to be able to live comfortably there.