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.

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.

We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.

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

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.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

I still haven't gotten that little something out of my system that I'm still not a kid going to a football game. I'm excited.