How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort.
Confidence comes from being prepared.
If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.
Drink deeply from good books.
The best competition I have is against myself to become better
When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices.