Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals

Well-coached teams are never surprised; they can adapt to anything they see.

Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals.

A star can win any game; a team can win every game.

Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared

Winning is more related to good defense than good offense

The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players

I believe you win games by what you do from your first practice until your first game

Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions

Troubles like babies grow larger by nursing.

This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.

I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team. When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart.

Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that it helps you, that is a valid affirmation.

A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.

Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.

I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done.

Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye