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.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.
The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.
Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.
You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
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