Footwork is one of the primary prerequisites to becoming a great player

If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

That's why basketball was so good, because I didn't really need you or anyone else to play it. It would be better if we played four-on-four or five-on-five, but I could go out there alone.

The only way you're going to grow is to be in difficult situations.

Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.