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.

Discipline and demand without being demeaning.

Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.

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

The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.

In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.