Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.
I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.
Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.
Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.
Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.
Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice.
He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.
Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere
People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.
If you are honest with yourself and can look into a mirror and believe that you have given 100 percent, you should feel proud. If you cannot, then there is more work to be done.
You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.
Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Always acknowledge hustle plays in practice.
I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.
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