I'm not afraid to die.

Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

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

Earn the right to be proud and confident.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

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.