In life, be a participant, not a spectator.

It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.

My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me.

See, winners embrace hard work.

We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.