I believe you win games by what you do from your first practice until your first game

Well-coached teams are never surprised; they can adapt to anything they see.

Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals.

A star can win any game; a team can win every game.

Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals

A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared

Winning is more related to good defense than good offense

The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players

Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions

False love can be bought

Desperation is the father of invention.

I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice.

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

The miser robs himself.

To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.

The NHS is a bit iffy when you sprain an ankle, but when it's a high-priority issue, it's fantastic. They don't mess about. They're incredibly efficient when things go wrong.

Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

Those communal areas have got elected municipalities, which have got to do their work as, as fully, democratically elected municipal councils.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!