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

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.