Practice without improvement is meaningless.

If you could have won, you should have.

They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.

Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident. There must be a plan for everything and the plan will prevent you from overlooking little things. By having that plan, you'll be secure and self-doubts will never become a factor.

Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.

Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.

There were a lot of big games. But I think one of the biggest was one that will go down as one of the biggest upsets in playoff history. We were 15-point underdogs going into Miami and upset them. That was a big one.