Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.

A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time

Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

In the Soviet Union you weren’t allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.

When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen

I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just ‘Thumbs up for the six billion

The only way to sustain a career is to be as prolific as you can be, and open to opportunities.

Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.

You can go out and get anything you want if you work hard enough for it and believe in yourself.

I am going to bring back infrastructure jobs, advanced manufacturing jobs, clean renewable energy jobs, innovation, technology, small business.

Trying is failing with honor

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.