In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him.

At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.

Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

The greatest malfunction of spirit is to believe things.

Truth always prevails. And I believe in that. I believe in God.

I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.