BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.

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

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

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 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.

We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a will to win. I don't. I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win.

I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.