“Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.”

In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

Hard work breeds self-respect.

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

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

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.

Ideas, goals, planning, and thinking are all necessary precursors to execution.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Lack of execution is the only barrier on the road to success.

I don’t really like talking. I like to execute. I’m not a talking person. I’m an action person.

A plan only makes sense when it is executed.

A plan only makes sense when it is executed.

I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.