We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.

Friendship is a full-time job.

Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.

The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.