Pressure can burst a pipe or pressure can make a diamond.

Pressure can burst a pipe or pressure can make a diamond.

Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.

Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around. read more

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around. If I don't keep changing. I'm history.

The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches read more

The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since.

If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as read more

If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from alot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.

The key is not the "will to win" . . . everybody has that. It is the will to prepare read more

The key is not the "will to win" . . . everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.