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“It's not my job to judge one of my athletes. Everybody is different. Some are the partying type, some are the studying type, some are ultra-religious, some might be gay. Put it this way: If you can play ball, that's all I care about.”
“Really good leaders help others become better than they are.”
“The one-and-done thing is a phenomenon. I don't know if it's going to last, if it's going to be that way all the time. It's going to be something that we're all going to have to deal with. But I don't think it's the norm.”
“Fear sometimes is a good thing, especially with accountability stuff.”
“A player gets into the Hall because of his abilities. A coach gets in because of his players' ability.”
“If I'm going to be responsible to get blamed for something, I'd like to have the ability to do something about it.”
“I just think there's something about being in the Olympics, even though I think it's been tarnished a little bit by commercialization.”
“You can't like your rival, but you can respect your rival.”
“Don't eat three pizzas when you sit down at night, and a gallon of ice cream. It works wonders.”
“Being a good leader is feeling what's needed to be said.”
“When you know your players are doing the right things in the locker room, the dorm room, on the plane, it makes you more relaxed.”
“I think unless you trust someone to tell you what you're doing wrong, you don't really sometimes realize what you're doing.”
“I want to go to Scotland in particular. If I had a bucket list, that would be on my bucket list.”
“I'm not a great golfer but I'm a competitive golfer and I think I could be good if I could spend some time on it.”
“We've gone to Final Fours as one seeds, we've gone there as five seeds. I think every Final Four we've been in we've had the most losses, just because sometimes scheduling, sometimes poor coaching, whatever the case may be.”
“There are not a lot of things in life that have a definitive ending. Playing careers are one of them.”
“If you take three steps forward and one step back, once in a while I can live with that. If you take two steps forward and three steps back, that's not a good deal for me.”
“I think any time you're playing for a championship, that's a whole other area. You play for the one and done, then you get a chance to play for a banner. That what I live for.”
“Listen, I learn lessons, too.”
“I have my own goals and dreams and I have my own aspirations of what I want to do.”