It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward

When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.

Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory. I wanted them to feel good about what they had accomplished. Not to like losing, but to like the success that they had.

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.

Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.