“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.”

Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.

I don’t give out compliments easily.

Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.

A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.

I think the only thing that I really thought about, I am always every year thinking about how I can get better, how my stuff can get better, how our team can improve.

I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.

Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.

There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.

It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

I’ve always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It’s important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.

Make Winning an Attitude.

To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.

Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

Class is more important than a game.

I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.

Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.