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.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
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.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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