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.

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

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

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

Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we'll make nice music.

Life is what you allow yourself not to see.