Bill Self On Motivation and Practice

Here, Bill Self says that 'losing' is his biggest motivation.  Not winning, but the threat of losing is what drives him to succeed.

He also tells a story about how Jerry Tarkanian contributed much of his success to practice.  Tark told Self one day that he felt that a major reason why his teams were better than a lot of other teams was that they practiced more than everybody else.  Self's response was that Tark had better players.  Tark then said that his players weren't always better, but that they practiced more.