Look after your people.

The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.

Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of caring - fiercely caring

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.

If you want to be a Champion, you've got to feel like one, you've got to act like one, you've got to look like one.

You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches

The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Many, many times, the kids with the less talent become the better athletes because they're more dedicated to achieving their full potential.

I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.

Some want to be owned, and some want to be saved. Only some want to exist in the glow of contentment.

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

The starting point is a question.

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

Dull winter will re-appear.

I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.

It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.

Getting a project started is like moving a ship. It takes a lot of energy to build up momentum.

What's meant to be will always find a way.