Well-coached teams are never surprised; they can adapt to anything they see.

Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals.

A star can win any game; a team can win every game.

Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals

A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared

Winning is more related to good defense than good offense

The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players

I believe you win games by what you do from your first practice until your first game

Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions

To be beautiful you had to be willowy and tall. When you were as short as Clary was, just over five feet, you were cute. Not pretty or beautiful, but cute.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.

A sense of humor is an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny.

Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.

I dress normal because I want people to treat me regular. And their brains explode. It's really fun.

Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women

All things come to those who wait.