Winning takes character and intelligence. It is the most important thing you can do because it's a reaffirmation of your character.

In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself.

Sometimes I feel tomorrow is the last. Some days I feel like I can go for years. I think my goal is that I enjoy coaching. I don't think I want to stop working. I think my dad worked in steel work for almost 50 years. The minute you saw him stop working you could see him go apart. I don't want to do that.

Once practice starts, we work hard, and that's the best conditioning there is. Everything counts. Every little thing counts. Run hard, play hard, go after the ball hard, guard hard. If you play soft (what I call signing a 'non-aggression pact' with your teammates), you won't ever get into shape.

If you yell at a kid and he gets mad at you, you've lost him. If you yell at a kid and he gets mad at himself, then you have something.

The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline.

I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them.