People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad..

As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games..

I hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions.

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

Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes..

If you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity..

I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender.

My overall point is that 'one and dones' are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I….

I think the ability to motivate might be interpreted as the ability to lead, or to show people their goals or, perhaps more important, what their pot….

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

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one..

I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We d….

What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots.

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success..

I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team..

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation..

People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and….

I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiabl….

We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at Kentucky wh….

You can't imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, "God, you treat those assholes like I'd like to treat ….

The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach.