Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.

You can't imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, "God, you treat those assholes like I'd like to treat them." And my question is, "Then why don't you?".

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

Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.

Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?

Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.

As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.