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Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.

We try to recruit good players and good people.

You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.

I want to be on a successful team, and I know that paying one or two or three players premium hurts your chances of being able to bring in extra talent.

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

You just go out there and try to compete and try to make a play for your teammates.

The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another.

I don't know if I'm different from everybody else, but there's really only two things to me that are really, really important - recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.