He has the players too happy.

The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.

Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of caring - fiercely caring

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.

If you want to be a Champion, you've got to feel like one, you've got to act like one, you've got to look like one.

You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches

The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Many, many times, the kids with the less talent become the better athletes because they're more dedicated to achieving their full potential.

I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.

If you are very helpful, no one may remember you, but never forget to be helpful anyway.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Trauma can have a masking effect.

In this world, people always find a way of doing what they want

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Let us resolve to be happy regardless of our circumstance.

The Past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute.

Reeducation needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again ~ those indestructible weeds of historical truth.