“The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.”

Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

Hard work breeds self-respect.

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.

Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.

If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.

Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.

I don’t give out compliments easily.

Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.

It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.

I surround myself with strong willed, courageous personalities, because I’ve got to be coached by the best.

I acknowledge my beauty and my flaws, I do my best to keep it one hundred with the woman in the mirror so making friends is actually easy.

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it’s show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

I’m very organized – and the best thing – when you love your work.

Messi is the best player of all time. Better than Pele, better than Maradona and better than anyone else.