Tough minded enough to do the necessary things – this is the epitome of what a team is.

We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can’t lay down in the street and act like you’re dead because they will kill you for sure. You might as well get up and fight.

A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program – players not learning.

You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach.

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.

You aren’t going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.

Be what ya is, ’cause if ya be what you ain’t, ya ain’t what ya is.

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

Nobody travels better than Northern State fans and nobody knows the game better than Northern State fans. If I’d die and went to heaven and I was coaching, it would be at Wachs Arena.

Don’t be in a hurry to change during the season.