The people that are around me that give me ideas that I pass along or we try, the one thing I never do, I never give credit to anybody but myself. So I take all of the ideas. So everybody thinks that all of the ideas are mine.

You better educate yourself. You don't stand in the front of the line unless you're up there because you know everything that's involved.

You don't have pressure on yourself to have to go nuts.

You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play

You'd better make sure that you know you can make a difference, and if it's a difference you want to make, is there another way to do the same thing, and what's the down side? What's the repercussions if I do this? To my career, to my family, whatever else.

I'm playing the guys who are going to fight. If you're not into this, I'm going to someone else

There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs. Michigan has Michigan State, California has UCLA, North Carolina has Duke. It's Kentucky throughout this whole state, and that's what makes us unique.