If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.

One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work

The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out.