Better than any person my age has a right to, |
Bill, I know what the other schools say. If you come to UCLA, I can't promise you'll make our team, |
But he passed him a long time ago in losses, You shouldn't pit those two against each other. Both are very good coaches. |
Cervantes said the journey's better than the end. Practices, to me, were the journey. |
Character is like the foundation of a house - it is below the surface. |
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. |
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. |
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. |
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability. |
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability. |
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. |
For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment. |
His style would not cut it with me. I wanted the socks all pulled up neatly and I didn't permit long hair. He was different. It was a great attraction. He made fancy shots that I wouldn't allow a player to take. |
I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere. |
I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort. |