The more you lose, the more positive you have to become. When you're winning, you can ride players harder because their self-esteem is high. If you are losing and you try to be tough, you're asking for dissension.

At Boston University, I motivated negatively, and I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year everyone is dying for the year to end and you have lost them. The last two years at BU, I motivated positively and got much better results.

The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

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.

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle