Always get back to your core principles.

That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.

The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. Not me. I don't want to be a manager or a dictator. I want to be a leader-and leadership is ongoing, adjustable, flexible, and dynamic. As such, leaders have to maintain a certain amount of discretion

We lost, and that's the main thing that went wrong.

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.'

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