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

As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.

All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.

Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play

The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices

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.

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