If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team

We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street and act like you're dead because they will kill you for sure. You might as well get up and fight.

If you can do something and not blow your own horn, it sure sounds a lot better.

I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them

We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.

As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.