"You should just do the right thing."

"The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept."

"Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play."

"The truly free person in society is a disciplined person."

"Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game...about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building."

"Always have your players go and pick-up the guy who draws the charge."

"Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise."

"Motor cut. Forced landing. Hit cow. Cow died. Scared me."

"A lion never roars after a kill."

"There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does"

"The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out."

"The death penalty makes us all murderers."

"The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone."

"The most important thing is team morale."

"The real issue is not if a crossing is put in, but when. It would be negligent on the part of Union Pacific and the California Public Utilities Commission to not address the problem."

"Praise behaviour that you want repeated"

"The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring."

"Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television."

"Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game."

"The key statistic is still to get to the foul line."

"I've always believed in quickness over strength and size."

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

"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."

"You can't teach court savvy"

"You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball."

"One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work"

"The flash of rain, the shining rainbow riding completely around the plane, the lift over mountain ridges, the steady, pure air at dawn take-offs. ... It was so alive and rich a life that any other conceivable choice seemed dull, prosaic, and humdrum."

"Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end."

"All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live somewhere else. You see the shape of your life at a distance."

"You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos."

"The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down the pane, very introspective. I'm not inward-looking. I would never go to a shrink. I don't want to know what I'm thinking. I don't really like discussions in my family. It may be an avoidance thing."

"My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there."

"I found Hollywood pretty bruising and uncreative. The executives are all in thrall to the boss, and spend their times double-guessing him or her, and trying to remember what he/she said and then applying them to the script, whether it was useful or not. They're all in fear for their jobs."

"My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals."

"I have four Rhode Island Red hens. I get two eggs from them a day. They're feathered dustbins that eat leftover food and weeds, and they're easy to look after - I throw some grain at them in the morning, take the eggs and that's it. I love the sound of clucking."

"I hate fussing about in the kitchen when I have people over to supper, so I make a rich beef stew cooked in "wine "with carrots, sundried tomato paste and chopped chorizo sausage."

"Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship."

"Living together places a huge burden on the other person to be lover, friend, entertainments manager, chef, domestic help, which is almost impossible and can lead to disappointment. If you don't live together, you spend more time with other people and ease the pressure off your lover."

"Living apart is hardly possible if people have children together. It can also be more expensive to maintain two homes. But then, it's expensive to break up when you live in one property."

"A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on."

"The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them."

"I work every day from 9:30 or so until lunchtime. In the afternoons, I become a normal person - go shopping and do the garden and look after my grandchildren."

"I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway."

"When I was young, I couldn't imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they weren't out in the jungle, searching for romance. Besides, these women just looked so ancient - permed hair, beige cardis."

"I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and expecting more from life; the success of 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,' and other films and novels about finding love late in life, have shown that if we're up for it, there are adventures awaiting us."

"You can cycle through London on the side streets, which are less polluted - and much more interesting anyway."

"Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that line Oxford Street, the hopelessness of even thinking about driving."

"I like missing someone and being missed; I like looking forward to seeing him again. I like getting emails and texts with lots of xxx's."

"I did have a go with Botox, but I couldn't move my eyebrows. I also, at one point, had that filler stuff injected, but I looked like a hamster with wodges of food in its cheeks, so I stopped that."

"'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off - it opened doors on to whole other worlds."