“Everything a captain does in a team room is done to keep the team loose.”

I keep telling myself I don’t practice enough to be a perfectionist. And I don’t practice enough to get mad. So my temper has subdued and my attitude is subdued.

I always told my team two things: Never expect them to give you anything and always expect them to make the next shot.

I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don’t know where I fit in.

It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It’s being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.

You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

Unless you have a sense of values that’s shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values.

The tears loosen their memories so they can slide away. They cry at the life they have lost, and then they cry at everything they’ll forget.

Don’t let a little sin in; all hell will break loose.