Failure is not the crime. Low aim is.

Our titles would not have been possible without the unselfishness displayed by all our teams, the team wins, not the individuals

Every person under your supervision is different. They're all different. They're identical in most ways, but not in all ways. You have to study and analyze every individual under your supervision and try to work with them in a way that will be most productive.

I discovered early on that the player who learned the fundamentals of basketball is going to have a much better chance of succeeding and rising through the levels of competition than the player who was content to do things his own way. A player should be interested in learning why things are done a certain way. The reasons behind the teaching often go a long way to helping develop the skill.

To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

Being yourself; not acting. You therefore can function near your own level of competence. Satisfy you own expectations rather than those of others.