Pete Newell told me 'get as much information and learn as much about the game as you can, but use your own personality to teach it.'

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.

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.

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.

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

Pete Newell told me 'get as much information and learn as much about the game as you can, but use your own personality to teach it.'

Always get back to your core principles.