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We play for March.
No one will steal my joy.
LeBron and I are friends.
That's America, competition.
I have bobby pins everywhere.
John Wooden's books are great.
Malik Monk is special. Special.
Obviously, I'm not chasing the NBA.
I think I'm overrated as a recruiter.
If a guy can bully you, he will bully you.
You want perfection, go to a bowling alley!
I read books by other coaches all the time.
The problem with the NCAA - it's slow-moving.
Everything all of us do is stolen from somebody.
I'm not a big proponent of the league tournament.
I don't read the papers; I don't listen to radio.
The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger.
Be more concerned with everybody else than yourself.
The biggest day in the history of Kentucky's program.
You don't have pressure on yourself to have to go nuts.
You cannot please everybody. You keep marching forward.
We're not moving fast enough with where things are going.
It's not about how far you fall, but how high you rebound.
High school coaches sometimes are better coaches than I am.
A successful person never loses...they either win or learn!
When your best players are really good guys, it's the best.
Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means.
Nothing is given to you. You're going to have to work for it.
What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?
If you win the conference tournament, it doesn't mean anything.
I gotta be able to sleep at night knowing that I'm being honest.
You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.
I know who I am. I don't see myself as this whoever they see me as.
You wish there was more consistency about how they do things in the NCAA.
I know I'm not a saint, but I'm not the guy I'm made out to be by others.
What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself
If my team won a national title and no one got drafted, I'd be disappointed.
I'm not the grand poobah. I'm not the emperor. That's not what I want to be.
All my best players have been really good guys, which means I can coach them.
You can be the seventh scorer or the first scorer, just be your best version.
All the teams you have have different personalities, and you kind of want it.
The guys that make game winners are the guys that are not afraid to miss them.
You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game
I've always taken the approach that it's about the seed in the NCAA tournament.
I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.
If I have the choice between experience and talent, I'm taking talent every time.
In a normal season, the sixth man always seems to get the most minutes on my team.
I'm not embarrassed about how we recruit, how we treat kids, and how we coach them.
My vision is one of celebrations and banquets, diplomas and banners, rings and parades.
I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.