What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

We almost have to force or drive ourselves to work hard if we are to reach our potential. If we don't enjoy what we do, we won't be able to push as hard as we need to push for as long as we need to push to achieve our best. However, if we enjoy what we do and if we're enthusiastic about it, we'll do it better and come closer to becoming the best we can be.

You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.

Character is more important than any other leadership trait.

There are little details in everything you do, and if you get away from any one of the little details, you're not teaching the thing as a whole. For it is little things which, together, make the whole. This, I think, is extremely important.

When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.

Never be disagreeable just because you disagree.