Occupation: Basketball Coach Birth: March 20, 1945
The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time..
No rebounds, no rings..
Basketball is a business. Pure and simple. If you want to have fun, go to the YMCA..
When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb..
Basketball is a game of conditioning and fatigue. That's why I believe in practicing a team to train when it's exhausted..
Whatever it takes to win..
You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game..
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way..
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it..
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning..
Am I a control freak? No. Do I believe in organization? You bet. In discipline? In being on time and making sure everything at the hotel is ready and….
I'd like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade..
Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable..
Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change..
Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses..
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better..
There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning..
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 ….
Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards..
There is no such thing as life in-between..
The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion..