A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.

The less determined and the less motivated weed themselves out.

Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.

Athletes that can't listen, can condition.

Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.

I do some broadcasting and speaking as well.

Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them

The first shot does not beat you.

I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.

To laugh continually is to never laugh at all. For it takes the periodic sound of sorrow from which to distinguish the sound of joy.

He felt like a brother of mine, but not at all like my actual brother. He seemed like someone I'd always know even if I never saw him again.

I want to play positive role models - women who mean something to other women.

Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling.

You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.

All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.

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