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.

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

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

If you have to 'try hard' to 'try hard, you are already beaten.

Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammates

There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.

Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.