Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.

Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.

You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.

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

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.

Let your players know that you love them.

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