When you can't be loyal to your friends, I don't like that world.

If you can get in trouble for supporting a friend you've known for almost 50 years, I don't want to live in that country.

The national championship for Syracuse in 2003 will always be the high-water mark for me. That was my alma mater, my team, my players, our fans. That remains the top experience of my basketball life.

I've had good players in my time. I really have.

I've said some things that are a little bit off the wall, but I don't run away and hide from them.

If you say something you have to take responsibility for it.

The thing is, I'm a sports junkie.Everybody knows that. I could watch any of this stuff - track and field... anything - and really enjoy it.

Katie Ledecky is the best swimmer in the world. You could say she's impressive with what she can do in a pool.

Each Olympics is different with their own great parts to it.

You've got to understand, every kid in college basketball, if you ask them where they want to play a game, in the NBA or college, they will tell you Madison Square Garden, a huge percentage.

The facts are, when we played here, we were treated better in Greensboro than any other tournament venue.

All the way through my high school and college there was never a doubt in anybody's mind the ACC was the best conference.

You don't play extra guys just to play them. You play 'em because they can help you in some way.

I first came to the Garden when I was a sophomore in college. The old, old Garden.

Syracuse, New York, is like Hawaii for eight months of the year. The other four months, I don't care about the weather because we're playing basketball.

Every Olympics, they make a big deal out of something - security... traffic... pollution... something - and it really doesn't come true. For me, there's never been a problem.

I don't love playing zone all the time, because it does have an effect on your offense.

When you take over at Kansas, they've always won, so you're expected to win.

I grew up in the Big East Conference for 30 years. We were a conference that was nothing. We were a bunch of schools thrown together and within five years we were one of the top two basketball conferences in the country.

Roy Williams has been a great coach every game since the beginning at Kansas.

Against our zone, even really good offensive teams take longer than usual to get into their patterns, maybe 30 seconds. So we're locked into playing defense for that long... it's hard to run on offense after you've been hunkering down on D for that long.

They don't work with you to get better in the NBA. Either you're ready or you're out and you go to the G-League or Europe.

You've got to work your way into the NBA. Guys like Seth Curry, it took him a couple years in the G-League.

I know every year what my players get and what courses they get them in. I get a report every semester. What course. What grades.