Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It's about mastering the art of letting go.

The ideal way to win a championship is step by step.

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.

Your problems never cease, they just change.

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

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.

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