I think the only thing that I really thought about, I am always every year thinking about how I can get better, how my stuff can get better, how our team can improve.

Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We want to make sure our players all fit together properly and complement each other, so that we don't have a big piece, a little piece, an oblong piece, and a round piece. If personalities work against each other, as a team you'll find yourselves spinning your wheels.

I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves