Shared suffering makes a team a team.
Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can’t lay down in the street and act like you’re dead because they will kill you for sure. You might as well get up and fight.
To those who much has been given, much is expected.
Time doesn’t fly when you are not happy.
Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.
Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them.
If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else.
The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else.
The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
If you have to ‘try hard’ to ’try hard, you are already beaten.
You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.
Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.
You have to learn to play with what you’ve got.
Nobody travels better than Northern State fans and nobody knows the game better than Northern State fans. If I’d die and went to heaven and I was coaching, it would be at Wachs Arena.
Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don’t get.
In practice, don’t just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.
It doesn’t matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.