Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.

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

If ever there was something she needed to stick around and fight for, Luc was that something.

It was almost romantic, in a mad-inventor sort of way.

If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old. It could end in an afternoon.

India is simply dotted with pilgrimage places, and with teachers and very powerful spiritual guides.

Abandon desire for this world, and God will love you. Abandon desire for others’ goods, and people will love you.

Life is a predator: you have to eat it before it eats you.

Oh God, Oh God we’re all gonna die doesn’t really fit the definition of banter, now does it?

Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along.

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.

God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.