A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That’s how I want you to play. Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team [...]

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think. Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing [...]

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall. Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate. Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. Dictionary is the only place that success comes before [...]

A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. All pitchers are liars or crybabies. Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours. Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical. Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. Even Napoleon had his Watergate. Half the lies [...]

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. Ability is a poor man’s wealth. Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your [...]