In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player.

The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court

X & O's aren't worth a damn without a team. If your team isn't with you it doesn't matter what you draw up. The team must respect what the coach is asking them to do

Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing.

No matter how good you are, at top pf your game, always remember that you're a half a step away from the street.

Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.

Use different basketball offensive alignments to cause confusion for the other team.

TALENT and WORK ETHIC, the most important and RARE combination.

If something works for another school, use it. Don't act like you are too good to use other ideas

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

Endurance precedes success.

Gratitude is a choice which can change our lives for the better.

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

I do a lot of to-dos and a lot of lists. I realized I had to make room for joy. So I added "to feel" items on my to-do list. That's something you can easily do.

What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

My friends tease me because I don't like clutter. I'm not someone who gets attached to things.

Neapolitans have always had their fast food. It's called pizza.