Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.

I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Anybody who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses...so what?

Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of caring - fiercely caring

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

You can't win without the ball.

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.