You can only receive what you’re willing to give.
The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.
All of us have at least one great voice deep inside.
When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.
All I did from day-to-day is coach. That’s what my job was, that’s what my passion was, and the fact that now it’s something I’m being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.
Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
I’d like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade.
In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You’ve got to stop other teams to win.
In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.
Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.
There is no such thing as life in-between.
The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.
Whatever it takes to win.
We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.
Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.
Your either in or out. There’s no in between.
When you’re playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you’ll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.
People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either in or out. There’s no such thing as a life in between.