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.

Just do what you do best.

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

I'm able to fight for myself, I'm able to speak up and feel like I have a voice, and I can be my own advocate and my own warrior.

I absolutely love everything about Christmas music.

Nobody, nobody, perhaps in the history of politics was worse to women or abused women more than Bill Clinton.

I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

Humankind above all is lazy.

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger

I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.

The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.