To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say two plus two is four to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with.

Success is best measured by the achiever.

Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.

Failure is not getting beat. Failure is when you don't do a good job preparing.

Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter.

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.