Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have.

Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth

If you want to go quickly, go by yourself - if you want to go farther, go in a group.

How competitive can you be without losing your discipline?

Encourage 'random' picks on the ball because they cannot be scouted

Sometimes you will hate me because I will tell you the truth about your game. And the truth can hurt/humble you

I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots

If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do

(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

I just think a guy that knows how to play when you put him on a good team, he can be really good.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love

The Bernie Mac Show' is my life. It's the truth, and I'm not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.

I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or the highway.

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

You don't know what I'm capable of, you don't know what I've done!

So if you serve a whole chicken to your family like grandma did, you may be serving them 10 times as much fat than the days of yesteryear. That's a whole lotta fat, and big trouble for the waistline.

When no one is watching, live as if someone is.

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.