Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.
Treat each player as your own sondaughter if you can. . . the parents have invested in you.
You must be sure that you give back something that's beneficial to the game. Any of the teaching you do must be for the benefit of the men who play.
We are not going to play them; they are going to play us.
Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.
Unless you plan to out-rebound and out-shoot everyone you play, then you better learn to handle the ball.
Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.
I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.
But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.
I don't work out too much. I just do some pushups when I feel the right hook is getting a lil weak.
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.