“My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that’s important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.”

If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.

If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one

I haven’t ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.

Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.

You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.

I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.

Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.

Success is a project that’s always under construction.

Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.

We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.

Sit up straight, listen and participate.

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.

The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.

I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.

Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

If you’re waiting around for something to be handed to you or win the lottery, chances are nothing is ever going to go down, you know, so you got to make it happen on your own.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.

Using each heartbeat as a second chance.

You wonder if it is written in the stars or if it is all pure chance.

The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There’s more of a chance then that they’ll survive.

Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.