I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.

If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

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.

Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.

My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

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

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