Tough teams win when the shots are not going.

I'm 50 years old and been a college coach for 23 years, but after 12 years, no matter where you are, there are ups and downs.

I've had kind of a nondescript college career.

Indiana basketball is bigger than one person.

Karen is as good a coach's wife as I've ever been around, and she's better than most. She loves basketball and has a great understanding of my responsibilities, my possession.

One of the first things people think of when they think of Native Americans is reservations. We didn't have any idea what that was. We were just young kids growing up in normal blue-collar America.

My father had four jobs every summer. He taught driver's education. He sold World Book Encyclopedias. He sold life insurance. He worked the tobacco market. From the time I was really, really small, I went with him. Obviously, I didn't get paid.

In my formative years, when I was a little kid, I'd get out of elementary school, and because my mother worked as a nurse, I'd have to find a way to get a ride to the high school and watch my dad's team practice.

I always talk about my dad because he was a coach, and I became a coach.

Dreams do come true.

I had to take care of my family. That was my No. 1 goal.

I've had teams where we've had to get on a bus for 200 miles, play a game, and then drive 200 miles back.

In basketball, there are no trap games. If you walk out on that court and lose a game, it's because the other team beat you. You played poorly. But there's no trap game.

I never thought the NCAA violations for the phone call would ever rise to the level it did.

When you decide to go into coaching, obviously you don't forget why. That's to help develop young people, help them chase their dreams, help them reach their goals.

Washington State was a tough recruiting spot.

Sometimes players just take a little while to develop.

I have made the very difficult decision to leave my position as head coach of the men's basketball team at Indiana University.

You remember all your teachers.

My heading was NBA head coach. I didn't want to be back in college for a lot of reasons.

The coaching community is really tight-knit.

We have the wrong people chasing Osama bin Laden. It ought to be athletic directors and reporters. They'll find you.

I liked coaching in an underdog situation.

I was comfortable in Pullman; I really was.

I didn't want to end my coaching career as an assistant in the NBA.

What's an easier way to say 'bad?' Let's go with 'abysmal.'

I like that there is a lot of work to be done.

I learned a lot in the NBA.

The one thing that young coaches should do is if there is an NBA team in your area, get to training camp and see the coaching that goes on.

Any time you work with your son, it's special.

Kevin McHale was a master communicator and knows how to coach stars, and that's a unique gift because you take an old-school guy that's used to coaching his way, he'd have a hard time coaching them cats now, but Kevin knows how, and he has the patience of Job.

You choose who you want to be.

The most important thing in the world to me is my faith and my family.

I just coach my team. I just focus on coaching my team.

The people who know me, know me. Those are the only ones I worry about.

When I was at Oklahoma, I didn't think it could get any bigger than that.

As an outsider, when you think of Indiana, you think about a place that not only has championships but a championship tradition.

I've always been a goal-oriented person.

The thing that surprised me is you hear a lot about NBA guys, do they really want to be coached? My experience is they really do want to be coached. They want a plan: 'How are we going to win the game?' And they'll follow that plan.

Scott Skiles is one of the best coaches in the NBA, someone I observe and learn from on a day-to-day basis.

There were a lot of things that happened at Indiana that I was proud of.

I learned to be more flexible offensively, to not talk as much in practice.

Coaching is what I love to do, and I think I'm pretty good at it.

Getting to the NBA really helped me personally on a lot of levels. I liked it so much that I wanted to stay there.

I have never intentionally provided false and misleading information to the NCAA.

You just have to be secure and understand what your beliefs are and how determined you are.

No one would have ever thought College GameDay would be coming to the University of Houston, I know that.

I didn't realize the difference between coaching college and coaching the NBA. It's a totally different animal.

I learned quickly in the NBA that you keep one eye open at all times and one ear closed. You can't react to everything you hear or see.

In this business, a lot of coaches are running around thinking they're the reason their teams are winning.