The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.
