You must be sure that you give back something that's beneficial to the game. Any of the teaching you do must be for the benefit of the men who play.

We are not going to play them; they are going to play us.

Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.

Treat each player as your own son/daughter if you can...the parents have invested in you.

Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.

Unless you plan to out-rebound and out-shoot everyone you play, then you better learn to handle the ball.

I'm not against taking shots, but I am against taking bad shots.

Don't let a week go by without conferences with each player, you can't teach it all on the floor.

Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit.

I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

For me, the dialogue is the easiest part of writing. It just always seems so obvious what a character will say. Maybe its because I talk too much!

Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

I think I try to speak to the heart of the woman who I know is interested in growing into herself.

I want my kids to know that they're just as good and just as American as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Dr. Martin Luther King. My worst fear is they will become ordinary.

I grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don't stop and say, well, I'll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.

Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura