As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

The trick in writing children's books is to set up danger, mystery and excitement on page one. Force the kid to turn the page . . . Then in the middle of each chapter there's a dramatic point of excitement, and at chapter's end, a cliffhanger.

The marketing of players has created untold wealth for many sports stars. You can't blame them or the company that covets the relationship with them, but that doesn't mean the player is good.

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were.

If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.