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

Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.

We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.

Sit up straight, listen and participate.

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.

The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.

I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.

Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.

You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.

I think you can challenge people, but you don’t want to break people down. But you’ve got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you’re OK but you could be better.

It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.

There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.

Little by little does the trick.

I like to let things breathe.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.

There’s always tomorrow and it always gets better.

The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots.

I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do.

Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.