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.

As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

I've always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player's a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.

I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.

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 biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.