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.

It is better to anticipate than to react.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.

I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that's only one person's opinion. These guys sometimes believe they've been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn't the case.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.