It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Each of us has a huge capacity to learn and to achieve. Being ever alert makes the task of becoming all we are capable of becoming so much easier.

The general feeling is, if you don't treat everyone the same you're showing partiality. To me, that's when you show the most partiality, when you treat everyone the same. You must give each individual the treatment that you feel he earns and deserves, recognizing at all times that you're imperfect and you're going to be incorrect oftentimes in your judgment.

I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.

Ability may get you to the top, nut it takes chracter to keep you there - mental, moral, and physical.

My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself