A team is a fist-not five fingers.

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

Your planet's immune system is trying to get rid of you.

Time does not heal old wounds. New ones do.

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

Endings must come naturally, you're supposed to let it happen, not just to make it happen like that.

It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.

I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.

It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension.

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

My coach told me if I broke the national record for the 200, I could run a 100.