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

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

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.

I've always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player's a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.

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

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