Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.

The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.

To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.

Champions behave like champions before they are champions

The [best] coaches... know that the job is to win... know that they must be decisive, that they must phase people through their organizations, and at the same time they are sensitive to the feelings, loyalties, and emotions that people have toward one another. If you don't have these feelings, I do not know how you can lead anyone. I have spent many sleepless nights trying to figure out how I was going to phase out certain players for whom I had strong feelings, but that was my job. I wasn't hired to do anything but win.

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper