Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

Am I a control freak? No. Do I believe in organization? You bet. In discipline? In being on time and making sure everything at the hotel is ready and right? Definitely. I don't control players. I try to control the environment around the players so they can flourish.

When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.

The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.

We measure areas of performance that are often ignored: jumping in pursuit of every rebound even if you don't get it, swatting at every pass, diving for loose balls, letting someone smash into you in order to draw the foul. These 'effort' statistics are also stored on computer. Effort is what ultimately separates journeyman players from impact players. Knowing how well a player executes all these little things is the key to unlocking career-best performances.

Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.