The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

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

People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.

I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.

When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'

All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.