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“Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.”

“What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.”

“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”

“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”

“I think it is an accurate statement to say that some people consider feelings of same-gender attraction to be the defining fact of their existence. There are also people who consider the defining fact of their existence that they are from Texas or that they were in the United States Marines. Or they are red-headed, or they are the best basketball player that ever played for such-and-such a high school. People can adopt a characteristic as the defining example of their existence and often those characteristics are physical.”

“I've had the privilege of coaching the best basketball team in the history of the world, and that's the USA national team. I've had a chance to coach them for eight years. If you were to ask me if I could end my career only coaching one team for the rest of my coaching career, I don't think it could get better than that, especially with the players that I've had during those eight years. When you've coached at that level, you know, you've coached those players, it's pretty hard to say, I would rather coach anybody else.”

“Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.”

“A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.”

“If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.”

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.”

“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.”

“When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.”

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.”

“The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.”

“Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You've got to have them down before you can even think about playing.”

“If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.”

“One man cannot make a team.”

“Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”