If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.

My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'. He really drilled that in.

You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves

Before a vision (dream) can become a reality, it must be owned by every member of the group.

Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

I care about systematically playing basketball. If the spacing isn't right, if guys are standing on top of each other, if there aren't lanes to be provided, or rebounders available to offensively rebound the ball, or we don't have defensive balance when a shot goes up, all of these things are fundamental basketball. I follow it.

Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.