“In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.”

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?’

Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

I’ve got a great staff and great support system, and I’m going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

Combine practice with belief.

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.

Don’t go where I can’t follow!

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance.

The curious sterility of utopias comes from the absence within them of any scope for initiative, any room for plurality.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

I feel your absence deeply within my heart because we are already, and almost apart.

At the heart of all men suffering lies the absence of safety, and from that absence, fear is born.

This is a poem about love its absence is merely an optical illusion.