It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.

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

Players' attention spans get less and less as they progress.

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.

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

Only the mediocre are always at their best. If your standards are low, it is easy to meet those standards every single day, every single year. But if your standard is to be the best, there will be days when you fall short of that goal. It is okay to not win every game. The only problem would be if you allow a loss or a failure to change your standards. Keep your standards intact, keep the bar set high, and continue to try your very best every day to meet those standards. If you do that, you can always be proud of the work that you do.

Never let a person's weakness get in the way of their strength.