Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.
If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.
Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.
I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere
To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now
A flu shot is the worst thing you can do.
He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.
I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
I'll watch the kids play, have a big steak with my friends, stay in a nice hotel, sign a lot of autographs, then go back to Vegas and tell my alumni how tough recruiting is.
I told them not to worry about it, since we were going to play indoors.
The NBA is all about winning, but at this level (college basketball) winning doesn't make you happy. You can win, and play lousy, and in my program, feel lousy. To me it's about: How good can we be.
We did have three go to the YMCA.
I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation.
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