A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

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.

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.

When a leader takes responsibility for his own actions and mistakes, he not only sets a good example, he shows a healthy respect for people on his team

In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved

That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.