“Force your opponent into low percentage shots.”

And prevent the ball from going into the pivot man.

The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men.

I’ve always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

I wouldn’t give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.

I believe that good defense embodies seven cardinal principle

Point the ball on all long shots.

But I’d rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.

There are no secrets in the game.

No easy baskets.

I know I have plenty of enemies.

If they don’t let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.

If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession.

He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.

Success is the best builder of character.

Control everything within 18 feet.

A sound system of play, and the ability to instill in the boys a desire to win.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.

Baseball didn’t really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping.

What is translated from English and into English – and in what quantities – is a question of power.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

I know how to turn the bad into good always.