Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day.

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

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.

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

The greatness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive. The weakness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

My job as a coach was to make something meaningful out of one of the most mundane activities on the planet: playing pro basketball.