Coach

No head coach does it by himself. I don't care who the coach is or how great he might be. Mike Krzyzewski is is a great friend of mine and he's a great coach but he has great, great assistant coaches and they bring a lot to the table and that's what it takes.

You've got to work your way into the NBA. Guys like Seth Curry, it took him a couple years in the G-League.

It's not harder to make a couple extra substitutions. That's not hard. You get different things when you make changes, you gain things and you lose things. But overall, if you gain things, that's why you play extra guys.

I've always felt like a guy where the grass is greener on my side of the fence.

Against our zone, even really good offensive teams take longer than usual to get into their patterns, maybe 30 seconds. So we're locked into playing defense for that long... it's hard to run on offense after you've been hunkering down on D for that long.

Roy Williams has been a great coach every game since the beginning at Kansas.

I'm not Joe Paterno. Somebody didn't come and tell me Bernie Fine did something and I'm hiding it.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

The thing I hate about writers is they want to state their case and they use false information.

You have to show high school players that fans care about your program, that they're gonna be at the games. I think that's a huge key to success in college basketball.

If you can get in trouble for supporting a friend you've known for almost 50 years, I don't want to live in that country.

At 67, you are what you are. I think it's too late to change much.

I don't think we should put a number on how long you should coach or how old you should be. It should be illegal. Go as long as you can do a good job. It shouldn't be an age thing.

Coaching people, people act differently, respond differently, hear things differently from different people.

Klay Thompson stands out. He's just a tough kid.

Every Olympics, they make a big deal out of something - security... traffic... pollution... something - and it really doesn't come true. For me, there's never been a problem.

I first came to the Garden when I was a sophomore in college. The old, old Garden.

I speak my mind on everything. I'm not reluctant.

I mean, it's very difficult up there in the NBA.

To stay in one time zone and play in a great conference - a great all-around conference, but, specifically, a great basketball conference - is a great thing.