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.

Everybody hears, but few listen.

I think the ability to motivate might be interpreted as the ability to lead, or to show people their goals or, perhaps more important, what their potential is - as a person as well as a player. You've got to show players that being part of a team will carry over to the experience of becoming part of society.

I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.

Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.