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“You don't have to be best friends as basketball players but I do believe in chemistry. I think it makes everything different if a team is really together and they're all on that same page. They might not like each other, per se, but if you're on the same page and the chemistry is there, you can play great basketball. You can go back to teams like Detroit, the Bad Boys. Those guys had great chemistry, that's why they won.”

“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.”

“Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.”

“If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

“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.”

“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”

“To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.”

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

“I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.”

“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”

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

“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.”

“The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.”

“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.”

“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”

“If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.”

“You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.”

“A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”

“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

“What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.”

“Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”

“Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.”

“Never mistake activity for achievement.”

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

“I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.”

“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.”

“Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.”

“Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.”

“In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win.”

“The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.”

“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.”

“One man cannot make a team.”