You start developing a championship attitude by, first of all, telling kids that they are really good and that they have the potential to become better.

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

Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.

Courage creates and makes more wounds, but its good for the brave and not the strong ones without wisdom.

Skills are common. Talent is rare.

As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.

To me the central premise is about friendships within people of different generations when you take out the idea how age creates a barrier - to me, that's what the show is about at it's core.

What a great advantage a man can have over women, if he only knew what cold and calculating thoughts are going through her mind.... while her eyes are brimming with tears.

Americans want to have what members of Congress have: guaranteed health coverage.

My wife and I, we work together. And we wrote this book, "Dad Is Fat." And in the book, I was encouraged constantly by my editor to be more personal and talk about more personal experiences.

I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.

Life is not free from its forms.