A biography for Tom Izzohasn’t been written yet.
“I've learned that people that question you are going to question you, the haters are going to hate you.”
“The early years of my career weren't exactly smooth, as we struggled to make any sort of postseason appearance.”
“I think we all are coaches in our own respect because we have to try to figure out a way to help make people better than we really are, and that's what leaders do.”
“I am an educator, my degree's in education.”
“I've had incredible mentors, people around me, my whole life.”
“I'll go to the grocery store or gas station, and someone says, 'What are you doing here? You pump your own gas?' Yeah, I pump my own gas - take my trash out, too.”
“I've taken the blame when I deserve the blame.”
“There's efforts to win games and there's efforts to win championships.”
“Time doesn't heal, time helps heal and learning helps heal.”
“I'm not a football coach; sometimes I'd like to be - you can grab guys by the facemask, you can yell at the refs, nobody cares.”
“My dad didn't give me a lot of freedom.”
“I learned that every opportunity is one that has to be seized.”
“I'm worried about what betters the game and what betters the student-athlete.”
“No comment always means you're hiding something.”
“Two years in a row, I went to Kuwait for a week. I lived in the barracks with U.S. troops; that was pretty interesting.”
“Remember, talent doesn't win championships, talent doesn't win games.”
“I guess watching film could be easy. But watching film, if you're doing it by yourself, you got to really figure out what you're looking at.”
“Timing in life can be cruel and it can be funny.”
“I'm not into big-time gambling.”
“You tell your players all the time: 'Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.' I think I'm in a position where I can help be part of the solution that's even way bigger than basketball.”