Encourage members of your team to take the initiative and act on their own.

I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts.

There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable

First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.

Communication does not always occur naturally, even among a tight-knit group of individuals. Communication must be taught and practiced in order to bring everyone together as one