Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

The bone's 6 inches out of his leg and all he's yelling is, 'Win the game, win the game.' I've not seen that in my life. Pretty special young man. I don't think we could have gathered ourselves - I know I couldn't have - if Kevin didn't say over and over again, 'Just go win the game,' I don't think we could have gone in the locker room with a loss after seeing that. We had to gather ourselves. We couldn't lose this game for him. We just couldn't.

Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.

At Boston University, I motivated negatively, and I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year everyone is dying for the year to end and you have lost them. The last two years at BU, I motivated positively and got much better results.