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My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed.

Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team. When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.

A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.

When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.

As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.

Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.

Practice structure determines success.

I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.

Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.

Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.

Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.