You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
Never mistake activity for achievement.
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.
I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.
When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best.
I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.
Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.
Prepare for every game like you just lost your last game.
It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.
The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.
Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
One man cannot make a team.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.
If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.
What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?
Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
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