(And the NYTimes obituary pages)

Pete Carill (Basketball coach at Princeton–1967-1996)

Carril said he was under no illusions: “If we played U.C.L.A. 100 times, they would win 99 times.” (The Tigers were defeated, 63-41, in the second round by Mississippi State.)“I know about your academic load,” he said. “I know how tough it is to give up the time to play here, but let’s get one thing straight. In my book, there is no such thing as an Ivy League player. When you come out of that locker room and step across that white line, you are basketball players, period.”

But he also told his players:

“Princeton is a special place with some very special professors. It is something special to be taught by one of them. But you are not special just because you happen to go here.”

“Playing Princeton is kind of like going to the dentist,” said Jim Valvano, the North Carolina State coach who died in 1993 at 47. “You know that down the road it can make you better, but while it’s happening it can be very, very painful.”

Bud Grant (Long time Coach of the Minnesota Vikings) said:

“A good coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback, but not necessarily in that order,” Grant wrote in The New York Times in 1984. “I happen to have been blessed with all three, and when I did happen to have any extra time I didn’t spend it with the quarterback.”