It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language. My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that's only one person's opinion. These guys sometimes believe they've been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn't the case.

The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.

When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.