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.

Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.

Don't be in a hurry to change during the season.

You have to learn things in every game because you are not going to be able to practice two-and-a-half to three hours (during the season), so the games have to be the ultimate learning experience.

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 you watch the game, be a student of the game.