Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.

In the end, I've found, people like the direct approach. It's much more valuable to them to have a leader who's absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.

This season isn't going to be without several crises. There's no doubt about it. They're coming.

There is winning and there is misery.

Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.