If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.

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

The price of wisdom is above rubies.

Kyle is a werewolf?"asked Simon "Of course he's a werewolf,you moron"said Jace

Believe me, folks, I've been saying it for a long time. The system, the whole system is rigged.

Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

There are idiots in every crowd.

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

When Depeche Mode put out a single you knew that a week later you could go and buy the 12" and it would have six versions and they were all better.

I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.

And the new day was a great big fish.