“You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.”

“When you hurry you’re more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you’re not quick you can’t get things done.”

“If you’re not making mistakes then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.”

“Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.”

“There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.”

“Discipline yourself, and others won’t need to.”

“I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.”

“The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.”

“Earn the right to be proud and confident.”

“In the end, it’s about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.”

“Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.”

“Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.”

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

“I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.”

“Friendship is two-sided. It isn’t a friend just because someone’s doing something nice for you. That’s a nice person. There’s friendship when you do for each other. It’s like marriage – it’s two-sided.”

“A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”

“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”

“Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.”

“I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.”

“It isn’t what you do, but how you do it.”

“You can do more good by being good than any other way.”

“No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.”

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”

“My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I’m still around.”

“I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.”

“What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.”

“All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.”

“Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.”

“If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.”

“I don’t believe in praying to win.”

“I think that in any group activity – whether it be business, sports, or family – there has to be leadership or it won’t be successful.”

“I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.”

“I don’t believe in fate.”

“I’m no wizard, and I don’t like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don’t want to be thought of in that way.”

“It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.”

“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”

“Happiness begins where selfishness ends.”

“Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.”

“Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating…too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.”

“Tell the truth. That way you don’t have to remember a story.”

“You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes.”

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

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

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

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.