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.

If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow

Effort is fully replenishable. There is no need to save any of it. Leave every bit you have on the playing field

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

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

A leader has to show the face his team needs to see.

I think coaching is confused at times as being an arrow that only goes to a player. Those players send arrows back to you, and that’s where a relationship is developed. I don’t make a player, and a player doesn’t make me a coach. We make each other.