Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

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 have as many good friends in the media as anybody in sports has. It's just that I probably have a hell of a lot more enemies than anybody else.

Everybody hears, but few listen.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

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.