My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'. He really drilled that in.

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

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.

The greatness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive. The weakness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive

A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.

Coaching is about, "How do I get people to play at their peak level?" It is a spiritual quest. And if it's not that, you don't have a challenge, you don't have a mission. Forming a brotherhood and trying to move it forward - that's what coaching is.

Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.