Well Said, Coach Riddle Me This

You can calm down a fool before you can resurrect a corpse. – Coach John Thompson (Georgetown), on preferring players with passion

Failure is good. It’s fertilizer. Everything I’ve learned about coaching, I’ve learned from making mistakes. - Coach Rick Pitino (Louisville)

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

– John Wooden (UCLA)

Discipline is the highest form of love. If you really love someone, you have to give them the level of discipline they need. - Tom Izzo (Michigan State)

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, “Of course not.” I said, “Well, I think you stink.” And he gave me a technical. You can’t trust ‘em!

- James Valvano (North Carolina State)

After the NCAA season, the Wildcats, the Tar Heels, and Syracuse are in the first three positions. The captains are Michael, Martin, and Paige. Here is what you know:

- Syracuse won as many games as the Wildcats and Tar Heels combined.

- Paige is not the captain of the Syracuse or Wildcats.

- Michael’s team won twelve games.

- The Wildcats won two more games than the Tar Heels.

- Michael is not the captain of the Wildcats. Who is the captain of which team? How many games did each team win?