I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

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

she...let the blood spill down instead of tears.

Yeah, well, you believe what you want to. I live in the real world.

When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.

I'm only going one way.

Aliveness doesn't happen in silence. Aliveness doesn't happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action.

I'm not much of a water skier, my legs are too skinny for that, so I just try to tube and have fun, just ride.

There doesn't seem like there should be an artful way to butcher a cow, but there is, and this is not it.

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

Yesterday's success belongs to yesterday.