The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger.

It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself

A successful person never loses...they either win or learn!

You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.

If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them

I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.

It's not about how far you fall, but how high you rebound.

Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that

I'm playing the guys who are going to fight. If you're not into this, I'm going to someone else

You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play

When you're trying to build or change a culture, what do you do? I always say to take players from state championship teams because they only know one thing -- winning.

Today's miseries could be tomorrow's loveful memories.

If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

In order to be big, you have to think big. If you think small, you're going to be small.

Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn't mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it's on an individual basis.

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

I feel like I have to step on the court every night and be dominant.

It's a book that makes me laugh and think - it would be very hard to like someone who didn't enjoy Candide!

The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."