The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.

Discipline is not a nasty word.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

You can never have enough talent.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

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

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.

Whatever it takes to win.

Look for your choices pick the best one then go with it.

Look for your choices pick the best one and then go with it.

In all the research you do as a coach studying other coaches and championship type situations you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. Youve got to stop other teams to win.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

There are only two options regarding commitment. Youre either in or out. Theres no such thing as a life in between.

If youre not getting better youre getting worse.

When a great team loses through complacency it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles. Effort is what ultimately separates great teams from ordinary teams.

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They dont want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy

All of us have at least one great voice deep inside.

Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team's energy takes on a life of its own.

The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.

Look for your choices, pick the best one, and then go with it.

It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or you're out. There's no such thing as life in-between.

The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from the heart.

Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't something that I got to use very much growing up. We eventually just spoke English around the house.

I've been lucky enough to be too busy for TV because if I'm not, I'll get stuck in front of it.

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.