If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

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

I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.

As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.

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.