You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team.

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

If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.

To be a team, you must be a family.

You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.

Discipline and demand without being demeaning.

Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.

When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.

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

Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.

Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.

Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.

We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.

You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

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

There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.

Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.

The key to success is to do the next right thing right.

There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.