Tom Izzo

“You have to learn how to compete.”

“We can't make a kid graduate. We're trying to get a kid graduated in four years, and yet play on the road weeknights, miss a lot of school.”

“I think it's good when you're versatile.”

“I feel like I spend a lot of time in the inner cities and around different people, and always felt like I had a good relationship. But when I saw what I saw with George Floyd, it sickened me. I said it and it did. It was real and it was disappointing, but it was disgusting.”

“I think if you play against guys that are as good or better than you and you're fighting for something, that's either going to make you or break you.”

“A good deal is when it's a good deal for both parties.”

“I'd do anything with the U.S.A. team in the Olympics from being the head coach, which probably isn't going to happen, to being an assistant, to being a manager or waterboy.”

“The price of leadership is strange.”

“In the NBA, you never know who you will play for, who is coaching you, what the general managers are like.”

“Words can't truly express what Mike Garland means to me. We've been friends since we met the first night in college and basically have lived the rest of our professional lives together. To say he's just my friend doesn't even scratch the surface of our relationship. He's my brother for life.”

“I love tradition.”

“Football and basketball have similar problems and similar positives.”

“I've always said I wanted to be somewhere where basketball and football were really good together.”

“I'm leaning more and more towards three points from a 3-point shooter is worth one more than a basket from the center.”

“Going into the Hall of Fame isn't something I even dreamed about so it's hard to think about what it will be like until I get there.”

“You have to get to Mackinac Island once or twice and, of course, coming up to the Mackinac Bridge is just awesome to me.”

“What is a leader? How can you be successful without one, whether it's corporately or whether it's team-wise or whether it's school-wise, whether it's community-wise or whether it's nation-wise?”

“I could do just about anything - put zippers in coats or put heels on shoes.”

“I have a great appreciation for walk-ons.”

“The one thing I'm learning about these phones and this Twitter generation, I don't think anybody cares about what happened in years past.”