My vision is one of celebrations and banquets, diplomas and banners, rings and parades.

We play for March.

If they're trying to get high school kids to go to the D-League, I will be shouting from mountaintops saying, 'What is this going to do to a generation of kids who say, 'All right, I'm going to do this,' you get one or two years to make it, and now you're out without any opportunities. Who's taking care of those kids now?'

When we're worried about a bureaucracy and keeping the bureaucracy going, you're always going to make mistakes.

I'm not the grand poobah. I'm not the emperor. That's not what I want to be.

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.

If a guy can bully you, he will bully you.

As long as I'm at Kentucky, you've got to be able to take the shots, or don't stay at Kentucky. To be the coach at Kentucky and get what I get, you can't be a 35-year-old coach whose never been fired. I've been fired.

Can I say this in a humble way - I don't need the money. If I stop coaching today at Kentucky, my toes are up, and I'm eating Cheetos, and I'm fine.

The guy who started on third base and gets home and acts like he hit a homer - that guy doesn't impress me.

Some of the best kids I coach were raised by a grandmother who was so firm that they understood.

You wish there was more consistency about how they do things in the NCAA.

More than half the G League is going to be high school kids that are trying to make it. I hope I'm wrong. I absolutely hope I'm wrong.

People want to see how we get teams to come together so quickly. They want to see how we get young guys to play so hard and so unselfish. I'm fine with that. I have no problem sharing that.

I think part of the reason some coaches don't want to be involved with social media is that they expect to be able to do it at a certain level. A lot of them are like, 'I'm not going to do it if we can't hit 100,000 or 200,000 followers.' Well, you're not going to right away.

I have bobby pins everywhere.

I'm not a big proponent of the league tournament.

In a normal season, the sixth man always seems to get the most minutes on my team.

They want it all - all As, all wins by 20, and want the highest GPA. Don't coach at Kentucky if you can't accept that.

If you can get a second-round pick that makes it, it's unbelievable for that franchise, what you save and all the other things to build. You're always looking for guys like that.

Every kid will tell you that they want you to be real, but that's until you keep it real with them. Then they don't want it real.

What I've always tried to do is undersell and overdeliver.

I'd love to be coaching kids three or four years. You kidding me? That's what I used to do.

Let's not have a postseason tournament. Let's have a preseason tournament where you're guaranteed three games: we go somewhere, and all the fans come in, and we celebrate our league. We'll have great games to start the year, and we'll do it prior to the year.

When your best players are really good guys, it's the best.

I've always taken the approach that it's about the seed in the NCAA tournament.

If I have the choice between experience and talent, I'm taking talent every time.

I've had transfer students who have never seen the inside of their previous coach's house.

Every one of us in this country is based on you've gotta take care of yourself.

I want to thank all the assistants and staff who have worked for us over the years, as well as the people in the community who have added value to our lives.

We're not the only ones out there trying to get good players and trying to help kids.

If it's late in the game, then you have your five best free-throw shooters on the court.

If I'm up at 4 in the morning, it's because I'm just coming in.

The thing I can tell you about coaching is that we make decision and career moves when your nerves and emotions are still raw, right after the season. It's the worst profession for that.

Change does not come easy.

There are certain people I do want to absolutely dislike me. And I want them to paint me as their enemy. Because I want nothing to do with them.

In my mind, I've got the best job in the country.

All my best players have been really good guys, which means I can coach them.

So kids that have pro potential and want to take a loan so that their families don't have to deal with it, why can't you?

I don't even have a computer.

When you're up nine, you're supposed to win.

Obviously, I'm not chasing the NBA.

There are no boys in this game.

You're not gonna do what we do better than we do it. Even if you're doing what we do, you're not gonna do it better. I'm absolutely convinced of that.

I tweet, Facebook, website, but guess what? Do I look at any response? Have I ever looked at a response? I wouldn't know how to get in.

I don't read the papers; I don't listen to radio.

My job is to protect my guys.

Malik Monk is special. Special.

In most cases, in this sport, for guys to advance in this sport, you gotta fight. If you don't fight, you're not making it, because it's too competitive.

Keep things in perspective. It's never quite as good as it seems, it's never quite as bad as it seems.