Jay Wright
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with great players.
I think the one thing that they all brought a lot of talent, they brought a lot of competitiveness.
Our mantra at Villanova was the word attitude, that you control your attitude on each play and you control your attitude on each day.
Regardless of what happened in the game before, that next day, you've got to come with a clear mind, positive attitude, learn from your mistakes, be humble based on your positive plays and your successes, and then get better the next day.
Get better the next play.
Have a clear mind the next play.
I think that's probably...
what they took from us the most.
And they've definitely added their own version of it in a highly successful way.
That's exactly what it was, Dan.
All of these guys, and a lot of the guys that John got, we recruited, and we said to them, look, you might be one-and-done, and if you are, great, but you have to come to Villanova with the mentality that β
You're going to be a part of something bigger than yourself and that your best chance of being the best player you can be is being a part of this program and striving to get better every day.
If you want to just go and play your way and put your talents on display for the NBA, there's other places where you can do that extremely well.
But Josh, Jalen, Mikhail, all the guys that came with them to Villanova came with the idea that
I want to go to the NBA, but I want to be the best student I can be.
All three of them graduated.
I want to be the best student I can be.
I want to be the best person I can be.
I want to be the best player.
I have a lot of room I have to grow.