Play your heart out each game, so you can look your teammates in the eyes and ask, without saying it, 'I played full out, did you?'

It is ok to err, but it is not ok to stop playing; it is ok to lose, but it is not ok to give up.

You must allow your players to become the athletes they can be. Don't make them into anything just to become the kind of winners fans, friends and others think they must be.

Shared victory is a double victory, shared defeat is half-defeat.

False teammates are like our shadows. They keep close to us when we are all walking in the sunshine, but they are gone the instant we just go into the shade, let alone the darkness.

There are three choices in life and sport - either you do it, you don't do it or you think about it. Most humans think about it. We will do it.

Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.