Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals.

Well-coached teams are never surprised; they can adapt to anything they see.

A star can win any game; a team can win every game.

Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals

A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared

Winning is more related to good defense than good offense

The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players

I believe you win games by what you do from your first practice until your first game

Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions

When Death has a story to tell

I believe in empty spaces they're the most wonderful thing.

The great challenge is how to marry creativity with discipline so that discipline amplifies creativity without destroying it.

Never tire to study. And to teach to others

The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly!

I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.