The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?

When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.

I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.

I have as many good friends in the media as anybody in sports has. It's just that I probably have a hell of a lot more enemies than anybody else.

As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.

I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn't have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.