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

The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn't have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.

I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.

The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach

The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.