“You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.”

Hard work breeds self-respect.

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.

If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.

Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.

I don’t give out compliments easily.

Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.

A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.

I think the only thing that I really thought about, I am always every year thinking about how I can get better, how my stuff can get better, how our team can improve.

I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.

Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.

There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.

It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

I’ve always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It’s important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.

If you can learn to understand people how they think, what they feel, what inspires them, how they’re likely to act and react in a given situation- then you can motivate and influence them in a positive way.

If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.

One intense hour is worth a dreamy day.

Unlike many people who start a new business, money was not my prime motivation – not that I was so well off that it wasn’t a consideration; in fact, I had put my lifetime savings on the line.

Success is all about action in the right direction.

Give yourself something to work toward – constantly.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

A motivated manpower is the most important thing.