Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate.

Teaching is a strategic act of engagement.

We've been duped into believing we don't have 25 minutes to have something change our life. We don't have 2. You know, we're tweeting. We're running around. We're 15 words or less.

I give people If You Came Softly when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.

I'll be the first one to admit my first couple of years I was pretty hard on the refs.

Patient and regular practice is the whole secret of spiritual realization. Do not be in a hurry in spiritual life. Do your utmost, and leave the rest to God.

Soon to come in licorice, orange, cinnamon, and banana, but not strawberry, because I hate strawberries.