You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.

Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

Francisco Garcia could have been a high draft choice last year, probably in the 20s. He's the best wing player I've ever coached. But he's done it the right way. He knew he had to work on his body to become a good pro. When he goes into the pros, he'll be physically ready.