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.

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

Practice structure determines success.

You can't imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, "God, you treat those assholes like I'd like to treat them." And my question is, "Then why don't you?".

If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.