During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions.
Don’t do anything as an individual that will make you stand out from your teammates.
Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.
Never let a person’s weakness get in the way of their strength.
You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.
Effort is fully replenishable. There is no need to save any of it. Leave every bit you have on the playing field.
Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.
In our program, the truth is the basis of all we do. There is nothing more important than the truth because there’s nothing more powerful than the truth. Consequently, on our team, we always tell each other the truth. We must be honest with one another. There is no other way.
You develop a team to achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. All of us alone are weaker, by far, than if all of us are together.
Leadership is an ever-evolving position.
Courage and confidence are what decision making is all about.
Encourage members of your team to take the initiative and act on their own.
A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.
Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.
In order to be a winner, you have to look for ways of getting things done and not for reasons why things can’t be done. People who live with excuses have things that can’t be done hovering around them all the time.
The only way you’re going to grow is to be in difficult situations.
That’s why basketball was so good, because I didn’t really need you or anyone else to play it. It would be better if we played four-on-four or five-on-five, but I could go out there alone.
Two are better than one if two act as one.
Leaders have to search for the heart on a team, because the person who has it can bring out the best in everybody else.
As a leader you can get sidetracked but you have to complete your mission.