Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
Anytime you stop striving to get better, you’re bound to get worse.
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player’s personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don’t have any more luck.
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
Being ready isn’t enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
There’s no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from the heart.
Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don’t want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy.
No rebounds – no rings.
You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.