“Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.”

Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.

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 don’t just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.

Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.