Quotes from John Feinstein

Early in the game, when it was still close, a couple of calls had gone against Carolina. Some of the students had started a profane chant. It didn't last very long, because Smith walked straight to the scorer's table, took the PA microphone, pointed in the direction of the students, and said, "Stop. Now. We don't do that here. We win with class at Carolina." They stopped. Instantly. When

He stood up. It was time to call his dad and give him a report. "He's always great in situations like this. He never lectures, never gets down. He's always encouraging. He always says, 'Okay, get back to work, and you'll get 'em tomorrow.' He's right, of course. The problem is, at some point you run out of tomorrows.

League before landing the job in Charlotte in 1998. He was only thirty

so-and-so is using?' You just knew. I never held it against anyone. It was one of those things where you knew they were just trying to keep their jobs, extend their careers. I guess I didn't

Sometimes in life, you make a mistake and there's no buts and no explanations … There's no peace in 'I'm sorry, but.' You can't find peace until you truly understand that the only thing to say is, 'I'm sorry,' period. ~ John Lucas, as quoted in 'The Punch' by John Feinstein

He's the reason I have so few rules on my team. He told me not to make any rules because that way if a bad kid screws up you get rid of him. If a good kid screws up you do what you have to do and let it go at that. Rules just get you in trouble.

Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.

I feel like if they can handle me, they can probably handle any crowd on the road or any kind of adversity that may come up in a game.

I'm old, but I'm not good enough to be jaded.

They had become unofficial mentors to the two aspiring teenage journalists

Teenage boys fall in love with girls who have blond hair and blue eyes. Basketball coaches fall in love with players who have a cerebral court sense and a great jump shot.

They walked through the hallways of the stadium, Dowling taking him on a tour of every locker room in the building.

Goldsboro, North Carolina.

Bob Woodward, this is Steve Thomas.

You don't often see Bobby Kelleher completely flustered, but he was that time.

Yeah, Stevie thought, you should probably pick up when the vice president of the United States calls.

Hate can destroy you or it can fuel you. I knew I had to find a way for it to fuel me." Krzyzewski

You see," Bouton wrote, "you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." Truer words were never written.

Never be proud of doing the right thing;

you should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do the right thing." To

I believe you should do three things every single day of your life," he said. "One, you should laugh. Two, you should think. Pause and think about your life. And third, you should cry. Get yourself into a state of emotion where you shed a tear. If you do all three of those things—laugh, think, and cry—well, that's one heck of a day." Eight

Cancer may rob me of my physical powers. But it cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul. Those parts of me will live on forever." The

She's in that show on the CW, what's it called, Uncovered? She plays a teenage hooker." "A hooker?" Stevie said. "A teenager?" Susan Carol said. "That woman plays a teenager? You're kidding, right?

THE "GAMES" BEGIN