To be a successful coach you should be and look prepared. You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. Remember you don't handle players-you handle pets. You deal with players. Stand up for your players. Show them you care-on and off the court. Very important-it's not 'how' or 'what' you say but what they absorb.

If you want to be a Champion, you've got to feel like one, you've got to act like one, you've got to look like one.

I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.