Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good read more

It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.

Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.

The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.

Tom.
(New coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets, when asked how he pronounced his name, 1966)

Tom.
(New coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets, when asked how he pronounced his name, 1966)

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under
pressure.

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under
pressure.

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.

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the read more

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.