If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.

A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!

Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.

I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.

It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.