With accomplishments comes confidence and with confidence comes belief. It has to be in that order.

A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time

Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.

I didn't scream I wasn't afraid. I knew I was strong enough to survive it all.

I think it's fair to say that, yeah, I'm playing Doctor Strange, I get there.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Never presume that I will not act on my worst instincts.

I still have anonymity, which is great. I can go out anywhere I want and no one ever recognizes me.

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.

I've never been disbarred, committed or convicted of moral turpitude, and the only time I was arrested, it was a case of mistaken identity...I didn't know the guy I hit was a cop.

Historically, the host nations do well in Euro 2000.