You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'

A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against

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

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

If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.

Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.