Unless you plan to out-rebound and out-shoot everyone you play, then you better learn to handle the ball.

You must be sure that you give back something that's beneficial to the game. Any of the teaching you do must be for the benefit of the men who play.

We are not going to play them; they are going to play us.

Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.

Treat each player as your own son/daughter if you can...the parents have invested in you.

Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.

I'm not against taking shots, but I am against taking bad shots.

Don't let a week go by without conferences with each player, you can't teach it all on the floor.

Your goals and dreams will never happen if you don't Sow Labor Into Time

Neither of us had anything to say, or rather we had everything to say, but after all those nights of not saying a word, we suddenly found we had not one dollar of time left between us.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of move out into the world, you realize everything is so trippy. That anything can be anything.

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

I am not married to any particular genre. I am more interested in projects that capture my imagination and move me in a way that I can spend a year of my life working on it.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.