Don't do anything as an individual that will make you stand out from your teammates.

Don't worry about losing. Think about winning.

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

A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.

When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals

I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to.

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.