You can't teach court savvy
Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.
I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.
Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.
Praise behaviour that you want repeated
The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus.
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.
Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game.
I've always believed in quickness over strength and size.
The most important thing is team morale.
Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.
Always have your players go and pick-up the guy who draws the charge.
The real issue is not if a crossing is put in, but when. It would be negligent on the part of Union Pacific and the California Public Utilities Commission to not address the problem.
I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school.
I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that but I know that's just American society.
The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.
The death penalty makes us all murderers.
The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out.
Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.
The flash of rain, the shining rainbow riding completely around the plane, the lift over mountain ridges, the steady, pure air at dawn take-offs. ... It was so alive and rich a life that any other conceivable choice seemed dull, prosaic, and humdrum.
I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am.
Motor cut. Forced landing. Hit cow. Cow died. Scared me.
I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun.
