“I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.”

I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.

Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.

Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?

Winners are not born, they are self-made.

No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.

She taught me that it’s ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.

Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.

See yourself as self employed.

If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.

Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.

Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.

There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.

I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.

I think I can help others just by my example.

I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

I drink to feel I smoke to breathe Just look what love has done to me.

I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I’m having this one.

When you listen, the benefit is two fold: You receive the necessary information, and you make the other person feel important.