People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.

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

It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language. My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.

The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.

I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began

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.

Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.