I never have been in Bernie Fine's hotel room in my life.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
