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To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

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

If you're a coach, you've got to have a lot of confidence in what you're doing. Your egos are so large that you know it all anyway if you're a coach.

The further I get away from coaching, the more I know I made the right decision. You almost forget how wonderful family life is.

I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.

Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit.

You notice it with any organization that's had a lot of success: you will start to reach thinking, 'That's the player, that's the method, that's the mechanism, that's the coach, that's the thing that's going to put us over the top.'

Coaching really is an individual philosophy.