When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1,037 times in 20 years.

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.

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.

He didn't remember ever being less weird than he was right now. In fact, as far as he could tell he had always been more or less exactly as weird as this. if not more so.

You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.

Being a writer means you get to live vicariously through your characters

Happiness is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it.

Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

The wise person questions himself, the fool others.

Success in life is defined by how well you deal with plan B.

Youth is incredible because you really do feel invincible.

I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure.