It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself
A successful person never loses...they either win or learn!
You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.
I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.
If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them
It's not about how far you fall, but how high you rebound.
Nothing is given to you. You're going to have to work for it.
What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself
The biggest thing is you cannot be afraid to miss the game-winning shot. It's not that you want to make it; it's that you're not afraid to miss it. You're not afraid to make a play and it go wrong. You have to have amnesia. You're not afraid to make a play and it go wrong.
There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs. Michigan has Michigan State, California has UCLA, North Carolina has Duke. It's Kentucky throughout this whole state, and that's what makes us unique.
Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that
The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you can improve players' self-esteem and confidence, get them to relax, teach visualization and routine, they will shoot as well, or better, with the pressure on.
I'm playing the guys who are going to fight. If you're not into this, I'm going to someone else
If we're going to stay the gold standard, we're going to stay ahead of the curve, well, then, when people try to do the things we're doing, we're trying to do more. We're trying to do something different. We're coming at it a different way. That, for me, to be honest, is the fun part.
You can be the seventh scorer or the first scorer, just be your best version.
The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger.
What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?
I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.
When you're trying to build or change a culture, what do you do? I always say to take players from state championship teams because they only know one thing -- winning.
You better educate yourself. You don't stand in the front of the line unless you're up there because you know everything that's involved.
When you're trying to make somebody the best version of themselves, you have to keep defining that over a period of time because sometimes it changes.
You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play
A great defensive effort. The one thing we have to do is make it hard for people to beat us. We're not worried about winning and losing, we just have to make the game hard
You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game
Be more concerned with everybody else than yourself.
