 Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school. |
| When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football. |
| With me and basketball, it became part of me. |
| I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears. |
| The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits. |
| When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest. |
| I hated to lose. Topics: Short |
| I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now. |
| I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it. Topics: Sports |
| A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play. |
| That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldn't skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that. |
| Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to. |
| Imagination has a great deal to do with winning. |
| If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win. |
| That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on. |
| First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity. |
| To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless. |
| My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles. |
| I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit. |
| Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need. |
