Doing the best you are capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat.

Respect a man, and he will do all the more.

With the experience to judge, one need not pre-judge.

Respect every opponent, but fear none.

If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

Conditioning is essential to success in basketball.