Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.

On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field.

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

Good things come to those who hustle

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.

Leaving the game plan is a sign of panic, and panic is not in our game plan.

The most interesting thing about this sport, at least to me, it the activity of preparation-any aspect of preparation for the games. The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

Books, I found, had the power to make timestand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")

We are not afraid to be entertainers.

I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.

But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting.

I once shook hands with Pat Boone, and my whole right side sobered up!

Our goal is to be the best team in the NBA at the end of the year.

Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.