When a leader takes responsibility for his own actions and mistakes, he not only sets a good example, he shows a healthy respect for people on his team

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

The news can be poison to your soul, don't let it kill your joy, be compassionate but not consumed. Be empathetic not enraged.

This is the purpose of life, is it not? To create life is the greatest act a living creature can commit.

I don't want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.

Great paines quickly find ease.

If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, you have a long wait ahead of you.

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

You can only be loved to the extent that you are known.

He's not only a good player, but he's spiteful in the nicest sense of the word.

I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.

Lawyer even sounds like liar.