Talent is important. But the single most important ingredient after you get the talent is internal leadership. It's not the coaches as much as one single person or people on the team who set higher standards than that team would normally set for itself. I really believe that that's been ultimately important for us.

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

With me and basketball, it became part of me.

Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.

A leader has to show the face his team needs to see.

Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.

You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.