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.

In my dealings with the press, I was like the guy who goes into the cathouse and the madam gets him prepared and looks at him and says, "Who are you going to satisfy with that?" And he looks back at her and says, "Me." That's kind of my sense of humor at times.

Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

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

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.