There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does

You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.

Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.

Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

A lion never roars after a kill.

Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.

Hearts are connected by the slenderest of threads.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

You could look it up.

The best characters are always wretchedly flawed

Make a faster machine and people will flock to inefficient software.

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

I think you gotta have some humor [in your story]. People gotta have a moment to laugh and feel that it's not taken 100% serious. That's important.

At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

Time to heal our women, be real to our women. And if we don't, then we'll have a race of babies, that hate the ladies that make the babies.