If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.

The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.

Al McGuire talked to me I don't know how many times about dealing with the press: "You've got to be a con man." I tried that for a day or so, but it never really worked for me.

If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.

Good basketball always starts with good defense!

We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a will to win. I don't. I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win.

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.