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“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.”

“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'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.”

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”

“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.”

“I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.”

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

“There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”

“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.”

“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.”

“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.”