Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.

You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.

Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.

Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

A lion never roars after a kill.

Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

Never touch another man's button.

Fans of these freshmen is about to get iffy while this youngin that you doubted is about to get busy.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

The way I understand it is the communists are in, the atheists are in, the agnostics are in, but religion is out.

The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.

Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'