Never complain about the officiating. It does no good. During the game I don't want to be fighting two opponents.

Selfishness is the greatest challenge for a coach. Most players are more concerned with making themselves better than the team.

When you see a successful individual, a champion, you can be very sure that you are looking at an individual who pays great attention to the perfection of minor details.

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.

I always stress condition with my basketball players. I don’t mean physical condition only. You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned.

How many of us have conflicts with someone else- and how many of us pray for that person? We have individuals with whom we are competitive, or whom we dislike or have a quarrel with; but very few of us have true enemies in the martial sense. And yet if Lincoln could pray fervently- and contemporary reports indicate he did- for the people who were opposing him, how much more can we do for someone we just find a little irritating?