Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

He didn't create the spark, he set the fire

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.

Lead the reader toward the thought, then stop a little short.

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.