If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

As much as we pump iron and we run to build our strength up, we need to build our mental strength up... so we can focus... so we can be in concert with one another.

Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound.

For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That's where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys.

I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.

I replaced three joints in my hips and one in my knee. I'm hoping that other knee doesn't have to be done. It's one of the toughest things to overcome.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

I think the most rewarding part of the job, and I think most coaches would say it, is practice. If you have it, a very good practice in which you have 12 guys participate, and they can really get something out of it, lose themselves in practice.

I think there's something about wanting to stand in the spotlight. I think the ball is a spotlight, for example, and I think they want to stand in that. I a lot of times see - LeBron is a guy that vacillates between wanting to do that and then wanting to get somebody else involved.

I'm not going to coach again. I've done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside.

My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.

My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the term 'true Christian.' He would turn the other cheek. He was truly a man of peace.

My philosophy is that you don't motivate players with speeches; you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in, and those are the guys that are competitive. You can not teach competitiveness.

Pau is one of the best big men in the game. I mean, Pau Gasol is going to be in the Hall of Fame.

The NBA has made a real issue about really making these superstars the premium that everybody wants to go to. That's their calling card and their marketing tool. But the coaches at the other end of the sphere are trying to make everybody on the team, even nine, 10, 11, 12, just as important, and have a real role that's meaningful.

The winter's a little bit daunting in Montana.

There's a lot of chatter in basketball and, rightfully, you want players to be talking to each other... But sometimes in practice, it gets too verbose... so I tried to take things out of the ordinary and make them special so they'd understand the difference.

When I was young, I was dedicated to become a minister - my brothers and I were formally brought in front of the congregation in a dedication ceremony, where we were dedicated to the future service of God.

You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important.

Your problems never cease. They just change.

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

The strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team.

Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration get the ball close to the basket and there are three ways to do that. Pass dribble and offensive rebound.

Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.

Winning is important to me but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever Im doing.

If you meet the Buddha in the lane feed him the ball.

Not only is there more to life than basketball theres a lot more to basketball than basketball.

The ideal way to win a championship is step by step.

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

The problem with trading dominant players of that size is you never get in return what you've bargained away.

Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day.

Sisters are splendid and incredible siblings who tower our life with exuberance and responsiveness at all times!

So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create our own little world in order to survive the one we're in.

When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.

I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture.

Never make assumptions about someone based on your past experiences with someone else.