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

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

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

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

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

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

I don’t try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys… I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.

Don’t try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

False Hustle = cheap fouls, lunging, reaching, etc.

Do your best when no one is looking.

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.

Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

I grew up in Arkansas and that’s the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach’s son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that’s what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to

The most important thing is team morale.

If you’re going to have to beg them to play, it’s not going to work.

Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

Basketball is a team game. But that doesn’t mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

What you specifically teach is what your players will do best.

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

I concluded some time ago that a major part of success of a team, or of an individual, has a great deal to do with the intangible qualities possessed. The real key is in how a person see himself (humility), how he feels about what he does (passion), how he works with others (unity), how he makes others better (servanthood), and how he deals with frustration and success, truly learning from each situations (thankfulness). I believe those concepts are the essence of a good player, team, coach, or individual in any capacity in life.

Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.

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.

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

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you’re going to win.

Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

Defense doesn’t break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.

I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.

I always mean what I say, but I don’t always say what I’m thinking.

Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.