All really successful coaches have a system.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
I can’t tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.
Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children’s life. It may save someone you love. And it’s very important.
To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
Time is very precious to me. I don’t know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.
Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.
Nothing can happen if it’s not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.
People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who’s right here too.
I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It’s more important.
We have a very intelligent team. I’ve had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you tell the team you’re going to have a closed practice and eight guys don’t show up.
The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.