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.

All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.

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.

I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.

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

I have as many good friends in the media as anybody in sports has. It's just that I probably have a hell of a lot more enemies than anybody else.

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