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

> Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

> Young people need models, not critics.

> Ability is a poor man's wealth.

> It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

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

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

> It is amazing what can be accomplished when you don't care who gets the credit.

> Too much money in almost any area can be a problem just as too little can.

> Consideration for others brings many things.

> You have success within. It's up to you to bring it out.

> Never mistake activity for achievement.

> Be quick but don't be in a hurry.

> Bad times can make you better or bitter.

> It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

> Failure is not fatal; failing to change will be.

> Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

> Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

> Nothing will work unless you do.

> Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

> You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

> Success is peace of mind that is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you gave your best effort to become the best of which you are capable.

> Don't measure yourself by what you've accomplished, but rather by what you should have accomplished with your abilities.

> I'm not a believer in meetings or so-called chalk talks or blackboard drills. I believe in learning by repetition to the point that everything becomes automatic.

> It isn't what you do, but how you do it.  No system is any good if the players are not well grounded in fundamentals. Confidence comes from being prepared.

> Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

> It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it is in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

> I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors - how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.

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

> Over the years I have become convinced that every detail is important and that success usually accompanies attention to little details.  It is this, in my judgment that makes for the difference between champion and near-champion.

> 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.

> You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned.   And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned.

> Webster partially defines faith as an unquestioning belief in God with complete trust, confidence and reliance.  Faith is not just waiting, hoping and wanting things to happen. Rather it is working hard to make, things happen and realizing that there are no failures - just disappointments - when you have done your best. As someone once said, "If you do your best, angels can do no better."