When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.

I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.

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.

To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation

The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.