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" That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on. "

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" When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down. "

" When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest. "

" Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to. "

" I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport. "

" Leadership is an ever-evolving position. "

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" You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel. "

" Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one. "

" I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts. "

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" A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play. "

" I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears. "

" Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need. "

" Imagination has a great deal to do with winning. "

" I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit. "

" Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it. "

" First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity. "

" Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school. "

" When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance. "

" Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing. "

" I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody. "

" The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed. "

" When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football. "

" The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness. "

" In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure. "

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" The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. "

" Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters. "

" It is the ultimate honor for a coach to be his country's coach. "

" Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable. "

" I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one. "