Coach

There should be some civility when it comes to being president of the United States.

I didn't work out from 30 to 68. I just started working out when I turned 68.

I'm happy that we've won a lot of games. I don't think about it. I don't.

You give hundreds, probably thousands of speeches in this business, but you only get one chance to make an acceptance speech at the Hall of Fame. That's pressure.

I've said some things that are a little bit off the wall, but I don't run away and hide from them.

Great scorers tend to think they can score against anybody.

It's always important when you play in a tournament that they have a basketball court and an arena.

I never really thought that I was going to get out of coaching ever. In my fifth year, I thought I might get out. You have those thoughts in any job. But I never really, really thought I was going to get out.

I don't love playing zone all the time, because it does have an effect on your offense.

Syracuse, New York, is like Hawaii for eight months of the year. The other four months, I don't care about the weather because we're playing basketball.

I kind of like the idea of just coaching, nothing else. But I just think some coaches are better suited for college than the NBA. I believe I'm one of those guys. I think Tom Izzo is one of those guys. Mike Krzyzewski. I think they found the right jobs and they've stayed with them.

They don't work with you to get better in the NBA. Either you're ready or you're out and you go to the G-League or Europe.

I've seen countless situations where I've been around him where he always does the right thing, 100 percent of the time. Tom Izzo would never do the wrong thing. And anybody that thinks other than that, they don't know Tom Izzo. I know him.

When you can't be loyal to your friends, I don't like that world.

I'd never switch to man-to-man unless we were able to play good man-to-man. Ever.

A lot of coaches get involved in a lot of different things - car dealerships and restaurants and all kinds of things. I've never really done that.

I've always felt like I was a college coach and I was a college coach for Syracuse. It just felt like the right thing.

It's one thing to play through injuries, quite another to play well through injuries.

All the way through my high school and college there was never a doubt in anybody's mind the ACC was the best conference.

You can't put pressure on yourself. You've just got to go out and play.