A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

He who gets the best players usually wins.

Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.

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.

I suppose I'm like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.

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.

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