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

We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

Pete Newell told me 'get as much information and learn as much about the game as you can, but use your own personality to teach it.'

I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents to encounter, and often new ideas and theories to try

You should do things because of what your expectations are of yourself.

I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.