“Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.”

I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It’s more important.

I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.

And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.

Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

We have a very intelligent team. I’ve had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you tell the team you’re going to have a closed practice and eight guys don’t show up.

Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?

All really successful coaches have a system.

Now I’m fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how’s your day, and nothing is changed for me.

Time is very precious to me. I don’t know how much I have left, and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people, too.

I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can’t trust em.

Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.

No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won.

You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.

If no one in the world mad at you, you haven’t accomplished much yet.

Give yourself credit for who you are and what you are. Appreciate how far you’ve come and your accomplishments.

Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish? What did I forget to do?

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.

When we stand together there is nothing, nothing, nothing we cannot accomplish.

Believing in yourself is the first step to accomplishing any goal. If you think you’re going to fail, you probably will.