"Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better."
"When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win."
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Source: Nelson: 'Luckiest guy in the world' by Marc Stein, www.espn.com. September 6, 2012.
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