To win this league, the toughest league in the country, and to be outright champs is a tribute to their effort. It's a great lesson in life for our guys. It shows anything is possible.

Working hard is one thing, but working hard with purpose is what separates the good from the great

The biggest thing is getting our guys to understand, you can't let one mistake compound into another mistake

Don't be afraid to let your players know how much you care about them

The greatest words you hear in college basketball are Ohio State advances. (The Iowa upset) is amazing. But again, it's all the proof you need that there's no guarantee.

You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator?

Oh, Gilbert, don't let's ever grow too old and wise... no, not too old and silly for fairyland.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.

For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.

I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry." "That might explain a lot," Beldin noted blandly. "We should have fed you more often when you were younger."

I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.