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.

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.

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

Ten minutes after you lose that last game, you start working on next season.

Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.

Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.

Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.