I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

Every scripture, no matter how ancient, must go through rigorous human scrutiny.

Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worry about sorting it out later.

I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

The Labour Party believes in turning workers against owners; we believe in turning workers into owners.

When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.

Phil Jackson would fight his own players in practice.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'