It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.

There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.

Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

Discipline and demand without being demeaning.

We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen.

Our goal as a team is to keep playing as a group for as long as we can because you will never have that team again. It is like a dying limb, you have to prune it off and let another one grow in its place. That is the way you have to do it, but it still hurts losing these guys and that team because they and you have put so much effort into building a team. Even if you win that last game (and a national championship), it hurts badly because the players know they will never have that same special group of guys together on the same team again. Somebody always goes and somebody new always comes in.

You have to learn to play with what you've got.