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

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.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.

You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.

Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.

You don’t have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich – just a bit better than average over a long period of time.

A jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce – like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.

My mom was a teacher – I have the greatest respect for the profession – we need great teachers – not poor or mediocre ones.

Be neither too remote nor too familiar.

The average millionaire can’t tell you who got thrown off the island last night.