As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform.

My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.

I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.

And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000.

Learn from everyone, copy no one.

And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996.

If you're going to take gambles, you must have one thing: self-confidence.