As a leader you can get sidetracked but you have to complete your mission

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

Unless you refuse the bad things happening to you, you will continue to suffer with your own consent!

I always say centered food equals centered behavior.

My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

Not suing others does not mean that others won't sue you.If people are desperate enough to think that they can gain some kind of financial advantage, they'll sue.

The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.

I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow

Better the last smile than the first laughter.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

In a world full of people, only some want to fly. Isn't that crazy?

The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.