I'll watch the kids play, have a big steak with my friends, stay in a nice hotel, sign a lot of autographs, then go back to Vegas and tell my alumni how tough recruiting is.

The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky theyre going to give Cleveland State another year of probation.

The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

Yelling doesn't win ball games. It doesn't put any points on the scoreboard. And I don't think words win ball games all the time. Players do. Preparation does.

The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get.

I told them not to worry about it, since we were going to play indoors.

During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails.

Coaching has been my entire life.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more or just expressing it in different ways.

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.

The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.

This face. What is it like to wake up to this face?

A sphere is made up of not one, but an infinite number of circles; women have diverse gifts, and to say that women's sphere is the family circle is a mathematical absurdity.

It's kind of strange-- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it.

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.