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

We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a will to win. I don't. I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win.

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

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

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.

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

It is better to anticipate than to react.