You can't imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, "God, you treat those assholes like I'd like to treat them." And my question is, "Then why don't you?".

BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

I don't intend to retire.

Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.

There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren't a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.

Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.