For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.
I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.
You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?
I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.
Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.
I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.
I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.
I coached in Washington - and in Washington, you lose the ballgame, it's a bad Monday, I just want to tell you that.