The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.

Look after your people.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

If you want to be a Champion, you've got to feel like one, you've got to act like one, you've got to look like one.

I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole.

I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.

When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1,037 times in 20 years.