Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?

Nothing can happen if it's not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.

We win or the alumni bash in our teeth. (On the dental plan at NC State)

All really successful coaches have a system.

Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

We have a very intelligent team. I've had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you tell the team you're going to have a closed practice and eight guys don't show up.