I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

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

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

In order to answer the question “Where am I going?” you must possess decisiveness

Denying realism amounts to megalomania.

More than half of my life is past

He can't go five minutes without quoting scripture. It's like biblical Tourettes.

As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...

The war-drum throbb'd no longer and the battleflags were furl'd In the parliament of man the federation of the world.

Emphasis should be laid on the evolution of humanity.

I do not think it is "selling America short" when we ask a great deal of her; on the contrary, it is those who ask nothing, those who see no fault, who are really selling America short!

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.