Rest when you need to, but never quit.

Never did I want to call the first time-out during a game. Never. I wanted UCLA to come out and run our opponents so hard that they would be forced to call the first time-out just to catch their breath. At that first time-out the opponents would know, and we would know that they knew, who was in better condition. This has a psychological impact.

When everyone has good players, teaching will be a telling difference.

Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.

A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, made it the Olympic Games ideal adopted at the Antwerp Games in 1920. I never mentioned winning to my players. I mentioned constantly that all I wanted them to do was the best they could. If they're good enough, the score will be to their liking; if they're not, it won't be but that's nothing to hang their head about. Sometimes the other fellow is just better than you are.

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

You must have respect, which is a part of love, for those under your supervision. Then they will do what you ask and more.