1. “Good basketbal always starts with good defense!”
2. Ffailure, to me, is not having the desire to try. having the desire to try is in its own way success.”
3. “the primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.”
4. “The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.”
5. “Everyone wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come practice.”
6. “I don’t think I have ever been out of control.”
7. “It is better to anticipate than to react.”
8. “I’ve never predicted anything. ll I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.”
9. “I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.”
10. “If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.”
11. “Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.”
12. “Everybody hears, but few listen.”
13. “You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.”
14. “For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favouritism.”
15. “Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do. doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.”
16. “A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.”
17. “A coach should never be afaraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.”
18. “Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.”
19. “The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices.”
20. “I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.”
21. “I’m not sure sports writing is an art.”
22. “Practice structure determines success.”
23. “Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.”
24. “People change over the years, and that change situations, for good and for bad.”
25. “You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.”
26. “Victory favours the team making the fewest mistakes.”
27. “Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.”
28. “the thing that bothers me the most about media is simple accuracy.”
29. “My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed.”
30. “Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?”
