What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.

Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.

Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.

You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.

Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.

When you watch the game, be a student of the game.

Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker

Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.

Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

Coach like the coach you want to be ten years from now.

Hope is a flicker, a candle flame kept burning by the simple act of breathing.

What are words without the melody?

Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.

People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don't want to suffer, they won't be open enough to recognize the joy as it flies by.

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.

The term "intellectual" is used conventionally to refer to people who happen to have unusual opportunities in this regard, and as always, opportunity confers moral responsibility.

As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters.

Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others.