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.

I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

It takes 10 hands to score a basket

Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games

Kindness makes for much better teamwork.

The purpose is to help, to prevent, to correct, to improve, rather than to punish. Criticism is not meant to punish, but rather to correct something that is preventing better results. The only goal is improvement.