We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you're a part of them and they're a part of you.

A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.

There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.

Everybody hears, but few listen.

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.

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.