I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.

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.

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

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 remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There's not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We're two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.