You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.
I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
Your mind is what makes everything else work.
One man cannot make a team.
Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.
Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success and so were the Celtics. So after awhile it became part of people's sports lore...
Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
Pride was his life force; for us it was a live nerve that he could teach us to brush. One stroke, a good practice, and we could tingle for days ... First, he found the pride in each of us, then he taught us how good it could feel. What he was ultimately after was for every one of us to learn to light our own fires and glow our brightest.
