Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.

Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.

A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.

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.

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?

It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language. My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.