My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

You better play together as a team or you sit.

What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you are able to be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience-even if you risk angering or hurting that person-you are offering the most valuable gift of all.

I seldom was ever off my seat on the bench during the game.

The athlete who says that something can't be done should never interrupt the one who's doing it

You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.