If you have fun, fine. It's not all life and death.

It's better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you're weak, you're likely to be wrong anyway.

There is winning and there is misery.

I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don't have any regard for anyone else's perception.

Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!

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.