If I can feel freedom then I can create.
Any coach needs talent. You start with talent. Without talent, we're all in the soup.
The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.
Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of caring - fiercely caring
They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.
If you want to be a Champion, you've got to feel like one, you've got to act like one, you've got to look like one.
Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.
We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn us any praise, that life is not going to pin a medal on us for recognizing and enduring our own vanity or egoism or baldness or our potbelly.
I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.
When I was in high school I made the discovery that if I was playing in a jazz club, and there were black people in the club, if I could get the black people to like what I was doing, I was on the right track. So I began to play to those people because they knew what the authentic music was. I've always had that in the back of my head.
Opportunity today, prosperity tomorrow.