In putting together your standards, remember that it is essential to involve your entire team. Standards are not rules issued by the boss; they are a collective identity. Remember, standards are the things that you do all the time and the things for which you hold one another accountable.

Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

In leadership, there are no words more important than trust.

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

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.

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