“Winners are not born, they are self-made.”

I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.

When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don’t take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, ‘No one can outwork you,’

Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.

I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

Put the Team Before Yourself.

I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.

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

Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.

If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.

I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’

Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

I’ve got a great staff and great support system, and I’m going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

Combine practice with belief.

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.

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.

I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.

No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value.

I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn’t have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.

I have died and rebirth a million times inside this body, and I have met a million people because of it.

Once you believe in who you are and who you were born to be, it can be very powerful.

It feels like I’ve been singing since I was born, and I have so many great memories with my family and friends centred around music.