When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

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

You are a bubble in the ocean of life that has come to enjoy the glints of the morning light.

No pain is unbearable except that of regret.

You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really are the leader and the captain.

Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical.

I love working in cinema - it can be in any language!

If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn't you come to me? quoted by Susannah Simon

If you're going to fail...FAIL FORWARD

Your existence is evidence that this generation needs something that your life contains

I'm a star: SHERIFF BADGE.

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.