The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.
People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
I'm not sure I've ever been around anybody that wanted to win more or worked harder than Michael Jordan.
I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
We need a Donald Trump more than we've ever needed anybody since George Washington.
When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'
My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.'
What the hell is a Republican? What the hell is a Democrat? I don't care. I've always urged people to make sure you vote for the right guy.
When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP, and the MVP in the history of team sports is Bill Russell.
Probably nobody in America has come close to setting up as many jobs for people with his business as Donald Trump has.
A big part of teaching is being emphatic. Maybe I'm right or wrong, but part of my approach was that when I said something, the kids understood exactly what I meant and what I wanted.
I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
