You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness

We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated

My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals

How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate

The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession

You have a choice to make when you're not playing. Either you're invested and a great teammate, or your not

The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions

The game honors toughness

As a coach I think that's one of the things we have to exude: the ability to move on regardless of the result.

The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.

Money is a means of exchange.

This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think, will have MAD stamped across it.

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

If the biblical account of creation in Genesis isn't true, how can we trust the rest of the Bible?

A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.

Within the silence, expansion, and sustained day by day concentration, I grow permeable.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art