“I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.”

All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average.

By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that’s how it should be.

The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.

I think anything you listen to is going to be different.

The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices

I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.

I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

We don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?

I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.

I’m related to people I don’t relate to.

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. …Nobody really sells records anymore.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander’s boss to get that changed.

I’ve always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.

America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it’s important for us to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.

The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.