Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.

You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.

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.

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.

When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time between rounds of golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques.

I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'