When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.

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

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.

Our goal is not to win. It's to play together and play hard. Then, winning takes care of itself.

A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.