You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants.

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

Never did I want to call the first time-out during a game. Never. I wanted UCLA to come out and run our opponents so hard that they would be forced to call the first time-out just to catch their breath. At that first time-out the opponents would know, and we would know that they knew, who was in better condition. This has a psychological impact.

Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

Drink deeply from good books.

Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting.