The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.

Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")

I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.

My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.

The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.