You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There's not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We're two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.

Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper

I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?

I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.

You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.

The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.