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It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

I learned quickly that motivating people would be the most important responsibility of my career.

The majority of the Big Ten towns are college towns. The colleges are kind of what run the towns.

I can tell you right now, anybody that says I'm genius, that is the farthest thing from the truth.

I've said some things that are a little bit off the wall, but I don't run away and hide from them.

I'm not Joe Paterno. Somebody didn't come and tell me Bernie Fine did something and I'm hiding it.

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

If you have a clear mind . . . you won't have to search for direction. Direction will come to you.

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

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.

As a coach, you have to have a short-term memory when it comes to shooting. Let it fly and move on.

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually

It's always important when you play in a tournament that they have a basketball court and an arena.

No coach can really survive very well in this business without support from his family and friends.

My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.

We will be at our best when times are at their worst because of our habits, attitude and chemistry.

With accomplishments comes confidence and with confidence comes belief. It has to be in that order.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot.

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

Everybody tries to take a tragedy and turn it to their own political purposes, and it's both sides.

I don't think I'm any different than most coaches, honestly. Maybe Steve Kerr. The guy never loses.

The Olympics is nothing I ever dreamed about. I dreamed about playing for Coach Knight and Indiana.

The Atlanta Hawks are a bunch of guys who would prefer to pass kidney stones than pass a basketball.

I get great satisfaction from trying to get better and trying to do the next thing as well as I can.

I can't make every decision for you. I don't have 14 timeouts. You guys got to get together and talk

At times, we, as coaches, try to shove guys as square pegs into round holes and keep hammering away.

Being Native American, we were different than everybody else, but I never felt like I was different.

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

You create shots for yourself by what you do without the ball more than what you do after you get it

Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.

If you've given the greatest effort that you can expect of yourself, you always get what you deserve.

The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.

You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.

Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have.

To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right.

You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team

If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

As players see themselves getting better through skill sessions, they will want to get in the gym more

The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated

I find five or six restaurants and I just constantly order from them or go there. I don't change much.

Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.

He has become a great leader of his team, a guy that has evolved in terms of his role within the team.

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

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