My bench never heard me mention winning. My whole emphasis was for each one of my players to try to learn to execute the fundamentals to the best of their ability. Not to try to be better than somebody else, but to learn from others, and never cease trying to be the best they could be; that's what I emphasized more than anything else.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

I discovered early on that the player who learned the fundamentals of basketball is going to have a much better chance of succeeding and rising through the levels of competition than the player who was content to do things his own way. A player should be interested in learning why things are done a certain way. The reasons behind the teaching often go a long way to helping develop the skill.

I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

Mistakes come from doing, but so does success.

I like to give opinions, not suggestions

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.