Quotes from Lenny Wilkens

If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head.

I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up.

If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head against it.

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.

I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

Athletes, we were supposed to just be there, and in class I made it a point that I was prepared for every exam, that I got on that Dean's List. Because I wanted them to see that there was a black person on the Dean's List who was an athlete. I accepted the challenge, because I want you to know that we bleed just like you do. We have feelings just like you do. Let us read the same books and we'll understand it just like you do!

I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.