I'm not Joe Paterno. Somebody didn't come and tell me Bernie Fine did something and I'm hiding it.

I'm happy that we've won a lot of games. I don't think about it. I don't.

Why did Donald Trump become president? I don't know.

I never have been in Bernie Fine's hotel room in my life.

Georgetown is still Georgetown. They have got a tremendous name and recognition. They are in a great area and have a great school.

I've learned to accept death better than most people.

I hate losing more than I like winning.

I've always felt like a guy where the grass is greener on my side of the fence.

I've always felt like I was a college coach and I was a college coach for Syracuse. It just felt like the right thing.

I knew I could hang on in the NBA, but I wasn't going to play.

It's always important when you play in a tournament that they have a basketball court and an arena.

You can lose a coach every once in a while. You really need to keep an athletic director because you need a guy that's there consistently for as long a time period as possible because he's managing everybody. He affects everybody and when he leaves, he affects everybody.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

If you go to the Final Four, you can lose 20 games and it doesn't matter.

The only thing that matters in college basketball is going to the Final Four.

If we can lose 12 games every year and go to the Final Four every year, I'll take it. I'd rather do that than win 30 and not go to the Final Four.

The Final Four is what we play for. That's what we're trying to do. That's what's important.

It's so much harder to make the NBA than people think it is.

To stay in one time zone and play in a great conference - a great all-around conference, but, specifically, a great basketball conference - is a great thing.

The thing I hate about writers is they want to state their case and they use false information.

I never really thought that I was going to get out of coaching ever. In my fifth year, I thought I might get out. You have those thoughts in any job. But I never really, really thought I was going to get out.

As you get older, you should be better at coaching. You learn your lessons. You keep thinking and learning about it, you should be better than you.

I didn't work out from 30 to 68. I just started working out when I turned 68.

The NBA has never drafted a player for defense. At any position, even at center.

It's college basketball and there's a certain amount of uncertainty. As an assistant coach, you do the best job you can to win.

I would be shocked if Tom Izzo left Michigan State.

I kind of like the idea of just coaching, nothing else. But I just think some coaches are better suited for college than the NBA. I believe I'm one of those guys. I think Tom Izzo is one of those guys. Mike Krzyzewski. I think they found the right jobs and they've stayed with them.

Great scorers tend to think they can score against anybody.

When you take over at Wisconsin, nobody's ever won there, nobody expects you to win and that's when it's really hard to do. And Bo Ryan won there, consistently.

Coaching people, people act differently, respond differently, hear things differently from different people.

I don't do a lot of things business-wise. For the most part, I focus on what my job is and do that.

A lot of coaches get involved in a lot of different things - car dealerships and restaurants and all kinds of things. I've never really done that.

I never said I'm unhappy about going to the ACC. I'm unhappy the Big East broke up. That's a completely different thing than saying I'm unhappy about going to the ACC.

I think we can benefit from being in the ACC. It's a great basketball league. If anything, it helps our recruiting.

Greensboro's mad at me because I said I'd rather go to New York City for a week. Why would they be mad at me? Are they that parocial. I didn't say Greensboro wasn't a nice place. It's a very nice place. But if I had a choice for a week where I would go and ask somebody in North Carolina where they rather go for a week - Greensboro or New York City?

I don't know if I could have made it as an NBA player. But I knew I could make it as a coach.

At 67, you are what you are. I think it's too late to change much.

No coach can really survive very well in this business without support from his family and friends.

I'm a competitor. I like to win games. I like basketball and I like to win games.

Mike D'Antoni is one of the best offensive coaches in the whole game of basketball, by far.

A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

It is up to God to take revenge. Only God can judge. I don't have to worry about getting even with anybody or taking out any kind of aggression on anybody. Doing that is a weakness, anyway.

I run a program called Amer-I-Can. We've taught in prisons, schools, juvenile facilities and we teach in the community. We have the greatest record from the standpoint of dealing with grade point averages, disciplinary action and attendance in schools.

You cannot get me to be disloyal to a friend. You just can't do it. Loyalty is a part of what I live by. I didn't say I was going to be loyal to my friend because he was right. I'm going to be loyal to my friend because he's my friend.

No human being should be a role model. We all have flaws.

There is no excuse for violence. There is never a justification for anyone to impose themselves on someone else. And it will always be incorrect when it comes to a man and a woman, regardless of what might have happened. You need to be man enough to take the blow. That is always the best way. Do not put your hands on a woman.

The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class wherever they want, eat wherever they want.

I could never understand why they did that to Barry Sanders in Detroit. I know that's one of the reasons why he retired, because they took him out on third down and let someone else catch the ball. I thought they must be out of their mind because Barry is such a threat.

I'm a very sensitive person. I do like to be respected. I'm very loyal. I like it to be a two-way street.