Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

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

I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a will to win. I don't. I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win.

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

I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began