The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award.