I know you can't please everybody; you can't make everybody happy, but just getting that perception that I don't care about basketball and what it brings is a lie.
The only way to shut people up is just by winning and just playing basketball.
Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.
Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.
Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.
We can always do it better.
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.
As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.
Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.
Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not have been that bad, but when you have had nine prior ones, it looks pretty bad.
You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.
We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put that fourth cutting of hay in the barn. After he does that, he can feel good about what is going to happen the rest of the winter.
Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players.
When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.
The team is an extension of the coach.
Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.
When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.
Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.
Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
There's only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play.
The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind.
