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 have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

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.

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.