With me and basketball, it became part of me.

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

The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.

Changing practices is one thing

I am not in the entertainment business. I don't give a damn if it was spectacular or not. I want cause and effect.

I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.

Do good in the name of children. Do good in the name of public health.

The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.

There are various names for this 'Spirit of Life' because there are various life experiences.

I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.

I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional.

Through true love, you touch inner completeness.