The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
I’ve always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.
If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I’d watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.
When we’re playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man’s job to stop the center. It’s the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.
In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them.
When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.