Quotes from Jim Boeheim

The only thing that matters in college basketball is going to the Final Four.

If you go to the Final Four, you can lose 20 games and it doesn't matter.

If we can lose 12 games every year and go to the Final Four every year, I'll take it. I'd rather do that than win 30 and not go to the Final Four.

If you look at the terrorist attacks around the world, they're in places where there is no security - a club or a movie theater or wherever.

The Final Four is what we play for. That's what we're trying to do. That's what's important.

Roy Williams has been a great coach every game since the beginning at Kansas.

I've always felt like I was a college coach and I was a college coach for Syracuse. It just felt like the right thing.

I love Charles Barkley, he's a good friend of mine and he's a funny guy. He knows nothing about college basketball. Less than nothing.

I don't think we should ever compensate players. I think we can do as much as we can for players. The cost of attendance is good. They get more meals now so they can keep their meal money. I think those are all good things and I think more of those things should have been done. But I don't think you can compensate players straight out.

When you take over at Wisconsin, nobody's ever won there, nobody expects you to win and that's when it's really hard to do. And Bo Ryan won there, consistently.

We want every guy to graduate, and we work very hard on that.

I've always felt like a guy where the grass is greener on my side of the fence.

We guard the shooter. A lot of guys shoot way behind the 3-point line. We guard where the shooter is, not where the line is.

I grew up in the Big East Conference for 30 years. We were a conference that was nothing. We were a bunch of schools thrown together and within five years we were one of the top two basketball conferences in the country.

I think we can benefit from being in the ACC. It's a great basketball league. If anything, it helps our recruiting.

All the way through my high school and college there was never a doubt in anybody's mind the ACC was the best conference.

You can lose a coach every once in a while. You really need to keep an athletic director because you need a guy that's there consistently for as long a time period as possible because he's managing everybody. He affects everybody and when he leaves, he affects everybody.

I never have been in Bernie Fine's hotel room in my life.

I kind of like the idea of just coaching, nothing else. But I just think some coaches are better suited for college than the NBA. I believe I'm one of those guys. I think Tom Izzo is one of those guys. Mike Krzyzewski. I think they found the right jobs and they've stayed with them.

I would be shocked if Tom Izzo left Michigan State.

If I could hire a coach in this country and I could get Tony Bennett, there would be nobody in second place. Nobody.

At 67, you are what you are. I think it's too late to change much.

I speak my mind on everything. I'm not reluctant.

I know every year what my players get and what courses they get them in. I get a report every semester. What course. What grades.