To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you're a part of them and they're a part of you.

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

You never know what you're gonna find when you look under those covers - grandma or the wolf.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.

I like American black soul music, that was my first big enthusiasm.

Catch-and-release, that's like running down pedestrians in your car and then, when they get up and limp away, saying -- 'Off you go! That's fine. I just wanted to see if I could hit you.'

I still bite my nails.

Religion is just coded spirituality.

Running has never failed to give me great end results, and that's why I keep coming back for more!

I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.