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

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.

Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch.

When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.

Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.

I can say that hands down from being in this business 32 years; we're going to be much better than we were last year just because there's eight new players that now have experience and Palacios will be healthy.

If I didn't have a recruiting engagement, I was going to be here. I did everything possible to change the recruiting thing. I'm a very small part of this night, but I did want to be a part of it.