Michael Payne Quotes on Work & Career (2 Quotes)

He had a lot of influence on me as a basketball player and as a young adult. He taught me about hard work, discipline and respect. He treated the best player on the team and the last player on the team equally, so I never got special treatment. Coach Tisdale was a great family man and that's one of the things I took from him. He touched a lot of lives, including mine.

You bring them in and you tell them exactly what the program is about, ... It's not an easy transition, but what they did in the past didn't work. It's kind of a cut-and-dried type of thing for them, and, believe it or not, 99 percent of them take to it like a duck to water.