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

To be a team, you must be a family.

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

It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people

We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen.

We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put that fourth cutting of hay in the barn. After he does that, he can feel good about what is going to happen the rest of the winter.

Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.