If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.

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

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

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

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

Al McGuire talked to me I don't know how many times about dealing with the press: "You've got to be a con man." I tried that for a day or so, but it never really worked for me.

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