In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved

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

Life is a book. We write in everyday existence.

To succeed in life you need five things – a burning desire, a willingness to do whatever it takes, wisdom, incredible effort, and a commitment to never-ending improvement.

Can't get away from your own self.

I am stuck in traffic in a taxicabwhich is typicaland not just of modern life

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Words should be weighed and not counted.

I would love to see a giant squid. Very few people have seen them. And only about half a dozen people have seen one alive.

Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.

If the [Republican] party wants to have an ideological debate, it's never going to win anything in a major way.

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.