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.

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.

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 champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

This is an entirely different basketball team than I've ever coached. The personalities are different. There's a lot of great things. There's a lot of things that have to be purged. It's just a whole different view. There's a lot of good parts, so it's going to take some time to figure it all out.

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.