I've had kind of a nondescript college career.
Indiana basketball is bigger than one person.
I don't think the fans pull for or against a coach.
Karen is as good a coach's wife as I've ever been around, and she's better than most. She loves basketball and has a great understanding of my responsibilities, my possession.
One of the first things people think of when they think of Native Americans is reservations. We didn't have any idea what that was. We were just young kids growing up in normal blue-collar America.
My father had four jobs every summer. He taught driver's education. He sold World Book Encyclopedias. He sold life insurance. He worked the tobacco market. From the time I was really, really small, I went with him. Obviously, I didn't get paid.
My dad was a high school coach for 30-plus years in North Carolina, and he was inducted into the North Carolina High School Coaches Hall of Fame. He's the best coach I've known, in every way, all the way around - relationships, motivation, going the extra mile, always putting his kids first and foremost.
In my formative years, when I was a little kid, I'd get out of elementary school, and because my mother worked as a nurse, I'd have to find a way to get a ride to the high school and watch my dad's team practice.
I always talk about my dad because he was a coach, and I became a coach.
Dreams do come true.
I had to take care of my family. That was my No. 1 goal.
I always coached mostly the have-not schools.
I've had teams where we've had to get on a bus for 200 miles, play a game, and then drive 200 miles back.
In basketball, there are no trap games. If you walk out on that court and lose a game, it's because the other team beat you. You played poorly. But there's no trap game.
I used to think 63 was old.
There's some things assistant coaches aren't ready to do. They're not the head coach.
I never thought the NCAA violations for the phone call would ever rise to the level it did.
It was never my intent to come back to college.
When you decide to go into coaching, obviously you don't forget why. That's to help develop young people, help them chase their dreams, help them reach their goals.
Washington State was a tough recruiting spot.
