I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team. When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart.

Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth

If you want to go quickly, go by yourself - if you want to go farther, go in a group.

How competitive can you be without losing your discipline?

Encourage 'random' picks on the ball because they cannot be scouted

Sometimes you will hate me because I will tell you the truth about your game. And the truth can hurt/humble you

I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots

Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have.

If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do

(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

It’s your responsibility and no one else’s to keep yourself inspired.

Courage - fear that has said its prayers.

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

I fix things. Believe me, when you hear about tough phone calls I'm having, don't worry about it.

I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.

I try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to end.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.