Jim Boeheim

“If we can lose 12 games every year and go to the Final Four every year, I'll take it. I'd rather do that than win 30 and not go to the Final Four.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“I don't know if I could have made it as an NBA player. But I knew I could make it as a coach.”

“No coach can really survive very well in this business without support from his family and friends.”

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

“I hate losing more than I like winning.”

“When you take over at Kansas, they've always won, so you're expected to win.”

“The national championship for Syracuse in 2003 will always be the high-water mark for me. That was my alma mater, my team, my players, our fans. That remains the top experience of my basketball life.”

“Georgetown is still Georgetown. They have got a tremendous name and recognition. They are in a great area and have a great school.”

“The thing is, I'm a sports junkie.Everybody knows that. I could watch any of this stuff - track and field... anything - and really enjoy it.”

“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.”

“Coaching people, people act differently, respond differently, hear things differently from different people.”

“The facts are, when we played here, we were treated better in Greensboro than any other tournament venue.”

“When you take over at Wisconsin, nobody's ever won there, nobody expects you to win and that's when it's really hard to do. And Bo Ryan won there, consistently.”

“I'm not Joe Paterno. Somebody didn't come and tell me Bernie Fine did something and I'm hiding it.”

“Great scorers tend to think they can score against anybody.”

“I first came to the Garden when I was a sophomore in college. The old, old Garden.”