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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 cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

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

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

I was supposed to be grateful because I one was one of the first African Americans coaching. I was supposed to sit there and say, ‘Oh, thank you Mr. White Man for giving me a job.’ God made me human and equal. Now I’m supposed to be grateful because you’re treating me equal and treating me as a human being? No.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

Young people need models, not critics.

Coaches have to watch for what they don’t want to see and listen to what they don’t want to hear.

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

Commitment to the team – there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.

I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.

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

You better have great practices.

I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.

Gettin’ good players is easy. Gettin’ ’em to play together is the hard part.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

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

I always say to my guys, ‘The most important day of your life is today. This very minute is the most important of you life. You must win this minute. You must win this day. And tomorrow will take care of itself.

If my uniform doesn’t get dirty, I haven’t done anything in the baseball game.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

You can never have enough talent.

The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I never drop a player I only make changes.

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don’t quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don’t quit until you reach it. Never quit.

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

Don’t become a seeker of success. Become a person of value.

My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that’s my job.

The beauty of coaching is that you are working with human beings. I feel very comfortable with my staff that we can make a difference, that we can make a difference on the ice.

Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do if the players feel I didn’t care for them. They know, in the long run, I’m in their corner.