The key to success is to do the next right thing right. 
Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique. 
Play off your great player ... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him. 
Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time. 
Coach like the coach you want to be ten years from now. 
You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws. 
You build your program from the ideas of great coaches. 
Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots. 
Don't be in a hurry to change during the season. 
Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter. 
If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball. 
There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place. 
If you have to 'try hard' to 'try hard, you are already beaten. 
Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence. 
Shout praise and whisper criticism. 
The team is an extension of the coach. 
We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece. 
Have character, don't be one. 
If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago. 
It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people 
Time doesn't fly when you are not happy. 
Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get. 
Shared suffering makes a team a team. 
Ten minutes after you lose that last game, you start working on next season. 
You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day. 
There's only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play. 
If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else 
Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits. 
A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program players not learning.
In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball. 
Tough minded enough to do the necessary thingsthis is the epitome of what a team is.
Let your players know that you love them. 
You have to learn to play with what you've got. 
Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball. 
If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end. 
Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract. 
When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind. 
Make the practices like games and the games like practices. 
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks. 
It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach. 
Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning. 
Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them. 
What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat. 
Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great. 
Every coach should be recording games to watch ... use your VCR. 
We can always do it better. 
To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right. 