A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.

You always have to prepare for the obstacles that are going to come. Consequently, when they do come, it doesn't affect you mentally near as much as when you're unprepared for them.

Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.