You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.

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

Darkness engulfed me...There was no ground below me, no sky above. Only the black, and the cold.

Christians don’t have the moral right to be indifferent

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

For every dream that you have, your week needs to match that dream.

The world, in truth, is a wedding.

Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

I don't like talking to people I KNOW, but strangers, I have no problem with.

If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client.