The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.

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

Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again. Then you must have the self-control to forget about it.

I don't believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that's the correct decision.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

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