When I had troubles, I'd go out - with basketball, you can do it by yourself, too. So you'd go out and shoot, and you'd fantasize.

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

I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.

I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you.

Microsoft is committed to the ubiquity of the Skype experience - communication across every device and every platform will remain a primary focus.

See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!

It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done.

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real

But my friends are happy for me. The people who know me are happy. My mom is happy. My family is happy.

you've got to learn something from every defeat in life or life will defeat you.