“My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that’s important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.”

Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.

There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.

I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.

I think I can help others just by my example.

I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.

God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.

When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don’t take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, ‘No one can outwork you,’

Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.

I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

Put the Team Before Yourself.

I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.

The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.

Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.

If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.

I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’

If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, Here’s my chance to grow.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Chance favors the prepared mind. The more you practice, the luckier you become.

Take a chance, because you never know how perfect something can turn out.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.