When I was at Oklahoma, I always felt like I had to control the game because we didn't have great scorers. So, I had to figure a way to win.

Nobody believed in us. Everybody made fun of Houston basketball. I can't say I blamed 'em.

It's a big deal to get to the NCAA Tournament.

The University of Houston is a program that should have national relevance.

My personality is more like my mother's. She was fiery. She had more of a temper. I always thought she had enough determination that she could do anything. She could fix anything. I think all children need that feeling from their parents.

The bad teams in our league are the ones who don't pass the ball well.

The one thing about Lumbee people is that there's so many stereotypes about Native Americans, especially reservation Native Americans, and we all tend to get lumped under that umbrella. But the Lumbee are non-reservation. I grew up no different than anybody would in normal American communities.

You coach at a have-not school, and you have to have a competitiveness and a resolve and resiliency about you that's different, or you'll never make it. You've got to find a way to do more with less.

Guys like Andre Miller and Kevin Garnett - they're posting up hoping a second guy will run at them so they can pass. You're better just playing one-on-one in the post if you can.

I'm saying when young men get to the NCAA Tournament, let's find a way to get their parents and their brothers and sisters a plane ticket and a hotel room. I don't think that's asking too much.

Leaving Oklahoma for Illinois is not the no-brainer some think it is.

When I first got to Oklahoma, it was really a blessing that coach Sutton was at Oklahoma State. He made me a better coach.

Racism was a big part of our community. I'm not going to revisit history, and I'm not going to call out those communities, but the communities we grew up around, we were treated like second- or third-class citizens.

The tobacco markets I worked in were segregated. If you went to the bathroom, there was 'White,' there was 'Colored,' and there was 'Other.' I grew up in that.

With federal recognition, the Lumbee Tribe would become a full player in Indian country, no longer second class Indians in the eyes of the federal government. As such, we would employ our substantial skills and abilities to help correct problems faced by Indian country and make significant contributions.

All I wanted to do is coach in the NBA. I didn't want anything to do with college basketball.

Sometimes Kellen calls me 'Coach.' Sometimes he calls me 'Pops.'

The most overrated thing is that you're a good defensive team because of your coaching. No. You're a good defensive team because you care and because it's important to you.

You don't want to get stuck playing 40 minutes a game with your small lineup.

Teams that just play on one side of the floor are going to struggle against defenses that load up on that side.

One of the things I enjoy most about what I do is I can give my father joy.

I was not real good at anything. I was just OK at everything.

Coaching is competitively addictive. It just gets in your blood, especially if you win.

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.