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

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

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.

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.

Al McGuire talked to me I don't know how many times about dealing with the press: "You've got to be a con man." I tried that for a day or so, but it never really worked for me.

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

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