Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one..

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

In my dealings with the press, I was like the guy who goes into the cathouse and the madam gets him prepared and looks at him and says, "Who are you ….

I've always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player's a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of her….

As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to….

The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game..

To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you're a part of them and they're a part of yo….

Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now..

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them.

Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensi….

Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play.

A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from..

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can..

I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the ….

This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they'll get rid of me, too..

A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against.

We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a….

My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed..

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice..

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you..

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy..