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.

Great scorers tend to think they can score against anybody.

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.

I would be shocked if Tom Izzo left Michigan State.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I hate losing more than I like winning.

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