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.
Jim Boeheim
It's one thing to play through injuries, quite another to play well through injuries.
We guard the shooter. A lot of guys shoot way behind the 3-point line. We guard where the shooter is, not where the line is.
I'd never switch to man-to-man unless we were able to play good man-to-man. Ever.
I don't think Harvard was punished when Bill Gates left early. I don't think they were. I don't think he did too badly.
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.
The ACC is a great league.
I love Charles Barkley, he's a good friend of mine and he's a funny guy. He knows nothing about college basketball. Less than nothing.
Unfortunately, in our business, it's all about the tournament when you're a good team.
I live in the moment. I try to win as many games as I can in any given year. That's what I've always tried to do. But I don't dwell on the past games. That doesn't help you win games now. If that helped win games now, I'd dwell on them.
I mean, it's very difficult up there in the NBA.
At 67, you are what you are. I think it's too late to change much.
There are different psychologies that different coaches have.
I've always felt in life, you get a lot of things you have to overcome.
We want every guy to graduate, and we work very hard on that.
You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.
Klay Thompson stands out. He's just a tough kid.
I'm not trying to make a big deal out of this. It's just the things Donald Trump says are crazy. You can't say those things. You shouldn't say those things.
It's a myth that I run things at Syracuse University.
It's college basketball and there's a certain amount of uncertainty. As an assistant coach, you do the best job you can to win.
You can't put pressure on yourself. You've just got to go out and play.
The thing is 3,900 out of 4,000 college basketball players are very happy to have a scholarship. They're happy. They've got a $70,000 scholarship and they've got money in their pocket. It's the other hundred guys and they're all going to make money playing basketball and the top guys are going to make a lot of money.
I don't think we should ever compensate players. I think we can do as much as we can for players. The cost of attendance is good. They get more meals now so they can keep their meal money. I think those are all good things and I think more of those things should have been done. But I don't think you can compensate players straight out.
I like coaching.
I think the only thing to consider is do you want to try to coach in the NBA and for me it never was an issue. I never really had that desire.
You can't try a man-to-man if you don't practice it.
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.
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.
The NBA is going to do what they want to do. They're going to do what's best for them; not what's best for us.
If I could hire a coach in this country and I could get Tony Bennett, there would be nobody in second place. Nobody.
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.
I don't like change that much.
I loved Jud Heathcote.
College, our job is to get guys to get better. Work hard, get better and be in position so when your time comes you get to play in the NBA.
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.
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.
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.
You've got to work your way into the NBA. Guys like Seth Curry, it took him a couple years in the G-League.
I grew up in the Big East Conference for 30 years. We were a conference that was nothing. We were a bunch of schools thrown together and within five years we were one of the top two basketball conferences in the country.
If you look at the terrorist attacks around the world, they're in places where there is no security - a club or a movie theater or wherever.
When you take over at Kansas, they've always won, so you're expected to win.
There should be some civility when it comes to being president of the United States.
I don't love playing zone all the time, because it does have an effect on your offense.
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 know every year what my players get and what courses they get them in. I get a report every semester. What course. What grades.
I speak my mind on everything. I'm not reluctant.
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 first came to the Garden when I was a sophomore in college. The old, old Garden.
You don't play extra guys just to play them. You play 'em because they can help you in some way.
