Encourage members of your team to take the initiative and act on their own.

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.

It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward

You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.

I believe work is good. There is dignity in work. I also believe that a hard-work ethic forges strong leaders.