When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language. My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.
Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you're a part of them and they're a part of you.
I think the ability to motivate might be interpreted as the ability to lead, or to show people their goals or, perhaps more important, what their potential is - as a person as well as a player. You've got to show players that being part of a team will carry over to the experience of becoming part of society.
I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
You can't imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, "God, you treat those assholes like I'd like to treat them." And my question is, "Then why don't you?".
Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
I have as many good friends in the media as anybody in sports has. It's just that I probably have a hell of a lot more enemies than anybody else.
I don't think I have ever been out of control.
If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
