Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must step into the vacuum and drive the beat that sustains the team.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.

The best part of basketball, for those people on the inside, is the bus going to the airport after you've won a game on an opponent's floor. It's been a very tough battle. And preferably, in the playoffs. And that feeling that you have, together as a group, having gone to an opponent's floor and won a very good victory, is as about as high as you can get.

Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound.

A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.

The bigger your head, the easier to fill your shoes.