Kelvin Sampson

“Sometimes Kellen calls me 'Coach.' Sometimes he calls me 'Pops.'”

“Some guys have all this talent, and you wonder why they can't put it all together. Well, they don't do any of the little things.”

“If you are an Oklahoma football fan, you have one of the best football programs in the nation.”

“Leaving Oklahoma for Illinois is not the no-brainer some think it is.”

“I was comfortable in Pullman; I really was.”

“The tobacco markets I worked in were segregated. If you went to the bathroom, there was 'White,' there was 'Colored,' and there was 'Other.' I grew up in that.”

“When I was at Oklahoma, I didn't think it could get any bigger than that.”

“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.”

“There were a lot of things that happened at Indiana that I was proud of.”

“As an outsider, when you think of Indiana, you think about a place that not only has championships but a championship tradition.”

“I loved the NBA. I really did.”

“No one would have ever thought College GameDay would be coming to the University of Houston, I know that.”

“You choose who you want to be.”

“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.”

“I learned quickly in the NBA that you keep one eye open at all times and one ear closed. You can't react to everything you hear or see.”

“I'm really proud of what we are building at the University of Houston, and hope I spend the rest of my career here.”

“Nobody believed in us. Everybody made fun of Houston basketball. I can't say I blamed 'em.”

“Indiana basketball is bigger than one person.”

“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.”

“I have never intentionally provided false and misleading information to the NCAA.”