I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
Good basketball always starts with good defense!
A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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 cookies.
I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?
My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed.
At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven’t called walking for 20 years, now you don’t know what it is. When you call walking, you’re about half right.
I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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 who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
I’m an unemployed teacher right now and I’m looking for a place to teach.
Don’t fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
I don’t intend to retire.
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.
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 apologize.
The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.