The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out.

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.

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.

Close your eyes to see me with your heart.

When you look at the stars.. your eyes are time machines

The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

Being without work [in the United States] is still far better for most people than being employed in Central America.

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.