If we can accept whatever hand we've been dealt - no matter how unwelcome - the way to proceed eventually becomes clear.

The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.

I probably would have no capability of absorbing a 60-defeat season as a coach. It would be a foreign experience. My whole career, even as a player, has been on winning basketball clubs and it just seems to have been a part of the make-up of what’s been given me. That’s what I’ve been given and that’s what I’ve had to deal with. Some people can make fun of it or some people can have a good time with it, or some people can resent it. It’s just what it is.

I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust.

I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.

I know what it takes to be a coach. I've gone through that. I think I came up short my last season. Lots of things were happening physically to me, and emotionally, perhaps mentally, too. I thought it was time to tend to more important things, like health and like family. I still enjoy that, and I don't think I have any need to go back to coach.

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.