A biography for Jim Boeheimhasn’t been written yet.
“To stay in one time zone and play in a great conference - a great all-around conference, but, specifically, a great basketball conference - is a great thing.”
“I've always felt like I was a college coach and I was a college coach for Syracuse. It just felt like the right thing.”
“Katie Ledecky is the best swimmer in the world. You could say she's impressive with what she can do in a pool.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I'd never switch to man-to-man unless we were able to play good man-to-man. Ever.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I like coaching.”
“Each Olympics is different with their own great parts to it.”
“A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.”
“Mike D'Antoni is one of the best offensive coaches in the whole game of basketball, by far.”
“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.”
“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 never really thought that I was going to get out of coaching ever. In my fifth year, I thought I might get out. You have those thoughts in any job. But I never really, really thought I was going to get out.”
“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.”
“Greensboro's mad at me because I said I'd rather go to New York City for a week. Why would they be mad at me? Are they that parocial. I didn't say Greensboro wasn't a nice place. It's a very nice place. But if I had a choice for a week where I would go and ask somebody in North Carolina where they rather go for a week - Greensboro or New York City?”
“You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.”
“I've learned to accept death better than most people.”