When you give total effort - everything you have - the score can never make you a loser. And when you do less, it can't somehow magically turn you into a winner.

Success is a personal matter - only you as an individual can tell if you did everything within your power to give your best effort

Make each day a masterpiece. Don't think your best days are out there somewhere. Why not today? Why can't today be a great day? It can if you believe it will.

There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

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.

Honors are very fleeting, just as fame is; cherish friendship more.