The guys that make game winners are the guys that are not afraid to miss them.
You'd better make sure that you know you can make a difference, and if it's a difference you want to make, is there another way to do the same thing, and what's the down side? What's the repercussions if I do this? To my career, to my family, whatever else.
The people that are around me that give me ideas that I pass along or we try, the one thing I never do, I never give credit to anybody but myself. So I take all of the ideas. So everybody thinks that all of the ideas are mine.
You don't have pressure on yourself to have to go nuts.
The biggest day in the history of Kentucky's program.
The hardest thing for a basketball player to do is dribble two really hard dribbles. You are flying, and then pull up and shoot a ball from 15, 17 feet. It's the hardest thing in the game.
When your best players are really good guys, it's the best.
For our children, you want them to build their own self-esteem and their own self-confidence. For your own child. You don't want it to come from somebody else because, if it does, that same person can take it away. You want them to learn the grind.
I would enjoy the fact that I had a team that won a national title, but I would be disappointed that none of the kids got drafted because that's not how it's supposed to work.
You do things other people cannot do, so just stay in the moment as you improve the other areas.
I know who I am. I don't see myself as this whoever they see me as.
Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means.
Everything all of us do is stolen from somebody.
It has to be fun for you when you see somebody at a distance and you take their opinion of what they're going to be like and then you go interview them, and they're totally different. You're like, wow, I didn't expect that.
The best players I've coached make really hard things look easy. Like you may say, well, that was easy, and then, well, go try it. You think it's so easy, go ahead and do it.
If my team won a national title and no one got drafted, I'd be disappointed.
Having a kind heart, you care about everybody else. You don't eat everything. Don't be a big. People in the community, be nice. As coaches, we want to see guys develop those kind of things, take those things with them when they leave our programs.
That's America, competition.
All the teams you have have different personalities, and you kind of want it.
If I ever tell the same story twice, just laugh and roll with it because, when you get older, you start doing that kind of stuff.
We can't have one group that oversees everything and then they define what amateurism is.
We're not moving fast enough with where things are going.
You want perfection, go to a bowling alley!
I know I'm not a saint, but I'm not the guy I'm made out to be by others.
