To be a successful coach you should be and look prepared. You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. Remember you don't handle players-you handle pets. You deal with players. Stand up for your players. Show them you care-on and off the court. Very important-it's not 'how' or 'what' you say but what they absorb.

I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear.

He has the players too happy.

Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

Everything can happen in the playoffs.

I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Anybody who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses...so what?