Turning down the Lakers was tough, but it is always good to renew your vows to the loves of your life.

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

non c’è peggiore infedeltà che essere fedeli a un morto

No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot.

Life can be as easy as you wish to make it, or as difficult as you are prepared to believe that it is.

Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.

One of my acting teachers once said that rejection is God's protection. There's something in it.

I want a guy who can clean my gutters and kill my spiders - who's simple yet layered.

Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as "rewarding.

When you're a regular on your show, that's your family. When people come in and out, it doesn't mean that you don't embrace them, but they have to leave.