For us to be successful on defense, we must get back and stop the basketball, eliminate easy baskets, keep the ball out of the lane, and bother the shooters.

We cannot accept in victory what we would not accept in defeat.

Practice to beat the best.

Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.

It is a paradoxical statement, but it takes incredible personal discipline to play with great freedom.

What you specifically teach is what your players will do best.

I must learn what I can to teach what I must.

We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).

What does this program/team need this week?

As hard as it is, grieving can be a gift, if we use it to examine our own lives and come closer to those we love.

Fight the good fight of faith

...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

Life drew me and I followed it.

Fred Astaire is the Carioca, the Continental, the very Piccolino of romance.

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.

You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.