The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky theyre going to give Cleveland State another year of probation.

Yelling doesn't win ball games. It doesn't put any points on the scoreboard. And I don't think words win ball games all the time. Players do. Preparation does.

The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get.

I told them not to worry about it, since we were going to play indoors.

I'll watch the kids play, have a big steak with my friends, stay in a nice hotel, sign a lot of autographs, then go back to Vegas and tell my alumni how tough recruiting is.

During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails.

Coaching has been my entire life.

The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper.

What? Really? And I thought I was just emotionally withdrawn.” She pulled her feet up, hugging her knees. “I’m also incapable going to be your next brilliant observation.

Self-complacency is fatal to progress.

Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.

What's interesting is, for myself, when I become really attracted to somebody, I find them in my dreams... conversations, nothing more.

I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.

Then stop being a know-it-all lionpaw retorted You're not my mentor so stay out of my fur. Lionpaw at Berrynose in Outcast pg 67

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced in any way.