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To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
No rebounds, no rings.
Whatever it takes to win.
Discipline is not a nasty word.
You can never have enough talent.
There is no such thing as life in-between.
The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
Your either in or out. There's no in between.
Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.
Don't let other people tell you what you want.
You can only receive what you're willing to give.
Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.
All of us have at least one great voice deep inside.
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.
When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator!
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle.
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.
Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.
He's the greatest clutch player I've ever seen. The hell with Jerry West!
If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.
Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.
Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.
Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
Basketball is a business. Pure and simple. If you want to have fun, go to the YMCA.
I'd like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade.
Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.
The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.
Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.
The changes in your life aren't always what you hoped for. But they usually help you grow.
People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.
Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!
I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
Basketball is a game of conditioning and fatigue. That's why I believe in practicing a team to train when it's exhausted.
When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.
