You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.

If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.

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.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.