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.

Live every day as if it were Saturday night.

You better have great practices.

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

I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.

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.

We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.