To be a team, you must be a family.

Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.

We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not have been that bad, but when you have had nine prior ones, it looks pretty bad.

If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.

There's only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play.

Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.

Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award.

We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put that fourth cutting of hay in the barn. After he does that, he can feel good about what is going to happen the rest of the winter.

Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammates