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

Throughout the season, I look into my players eyes to gauge feelings, confidence levels, and to establish instant trust.

If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team.

You start developing a championship attitude by, first of all, telling kids that they are really good and that they have the potential to become better.

Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.

It's not like we have not had close games. We've just been able to win them, and as a result, the reality sometimes doesn't set in that you're weak in certain areas or you're not doing certain things well. ... When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.

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.