There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.

When I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don't know. It's in my blood.

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live. If I ever got out of coaching, I would have to get a job somewhere, or I'm afraid I'd wilt on the vine, too.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.

That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.