Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

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I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of...

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of...

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise...

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise...

It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a...

It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a...

The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.

The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.

I'm at the stage of my career when it's not only about winning and developing...

I'm at the stage of my career when it's not only about winning and developing...

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today,...

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today,...

If I didn't have a recruiting engagement, I was going to be here. I did...

If I didn't have a recruiting engagement, I was going to be here. I did...

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.

After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that...

After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that...

Francisco Garcia could have been a high draft choice last year, probably in the 20s....

Francisco Garcia could have been a high draft choice last year, probably in the 20s....

I can say that hands down from being in this business 32 years; we're going...

I can say that hands down from being in this business 32 years; we're going...

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little...

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little...

Successful men usually snatch success from seeming failure. If they know there is such a...

Successful men usually snatch success from seeming failure. If they know there is such a...

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his...

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his...

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures...

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures...

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake...

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake...

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a...

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a...

There's nothing wrong in making mistakes, what's wrong is letting it stay as a mistake...

There's nothing wrong in making mistakes, what's wrong is letting it stay as a mistake...