Quotes from Jim Boeheim

If you say something you have to take responsibility for it.

I've said some things that are a little bit off the wall, but I don't run away and hide from them.

If you can get in trouble for supporting a friend you've known for almost 50 years, I don't want to live in that country.

I've had good players in my time. I really have.

The thing is 3,900 out of 4,000 college basketball players are very happy to have a scholarship. They're happy. They've got a $70,000 scholarship and they've got money in their pocket. It's the other hundred guys and they're all going to make money playing basketball and the top guys are going to make a lot of money.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

There are different psychologies that different coaches have.

As you get older, you should be better at coaching. You learn your lessons. You keep thinking and learning about it, you should be better than you.

I like coaching.

I'm a competitor. I like to win games. I like basketball and I like to win games.

Katie Ledecky is the best swimmer in the world. You could say she's impressive with what she can do in a pool.

I'd never switch to man-to-man unless we were able to play good man-to-man. Ever.

It's a myth that I run things at Syracuse University.

The national championship for Syracuse in 2003 will always be the high-water mark for me. That was my alma mater, my team, my players, our fans. That remains the top experience of my basketball life.

Syracuse, New York, is like Hawaii for eight months of the year. The other four months, I don't care about the weather because we're playing basketball.

The NBA has never drafted a player for defense. At any position, even at center.

You've got to work your way into the NBA. Guys like Seth Curry, it took him a couple years in the G-League.

You can't try a man-to-man if you don't practice it.

A lot of coaches get involved in a lot of different things - car dealerships and restaurants and all kinds of things. I've never really done that.

You don't play extra guys just to play them. You play 'em because they can help you in some way.

The thing I hate about writers is they want to state their case and they use false information.

No coach can really survive very well in this business without support from his family and friends.

I never really thought that I was going to get out of coaching ever. In my fifth year, I thought I might get out. You have those thoughts in any job. But I never really, really thought I was going to get out.