When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'

As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.

People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.

I don't think I have ever been out of control.

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'd probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren't to somebody in the press. So that hasn't worked to my benefit.