Winning takes character and intelligence. It is the most important thing you can do because it's a reaffirmation of your character.

Get the kids to understand that they shouldn't worry about who makes the shot, only whether or not the shot is made

Coaches win practices, players win games

If you think you are working hard, you can work harder. If you think you are doing enough, there is more that you can do. No one really ever exhausts his full potential.

A guy who gives you less than what he has to give is, one, telling you what he thinks of you, and two, telling you what he thinks of himself.

The two ingredients in success in basketball are playing hard and playing intelligently.

If you yell at a kid and he gets mad at you, you've lost him. If you yell at a kid and he gets mad at himself, then you have something.

Coaching is preparation.

In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself.

Bad shooters are always open

I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them.

Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.

I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.

As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.

And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.

We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.

it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.

August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation.

Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.