“When you hurry you’re more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you’re not quick you can’t get things done.”

Never mistake activity for achievement.

I think you have to be what you are. Don’t try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

Young people need models, not critics.

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them.

If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Hurry? I have no time to hurry.

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?