Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")

The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.

I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.

I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.

Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.

When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.