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.

The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.

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.

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?".

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.