Quotes from Jim Boeheim

I don't know if I could have made it as an NBA player. But I knew I could make it as a coach.

I don't think we should put a number on how long you should coach or how old you should be. It should be illegal. Go as long as you can do a good job. It shouldn't be an age thing.

It's always important when you play in a tournament that they have a basketball court and an arena.

Unfortunately, in our business, it's all about the tournament when you're a good team.

It's one thing to play through injuries, quite another to play well through injuries.

I've seen countless situations where I've been around him where he always does the right thing, 100 percent of the time. Tom Izzo would never do the wrong thing. And anybody that thinks other than that, they don't know Tom Izzo. I know him.

Every Olympics, they make a big deal out of something - security... traffic... pollution... something - and it really doesn't come true. For me, there's never been a problem.

I'm not Joe Paterno. Somebody didn't come and tell me Bernie Fine did something and I'm hiding it.

Georgetown is still Georgetown. They have got a tremendous name and recognition. They are in a great area and have a great school.

When you take over at Kansas, they've always won, so you're expected to win.

You have to show high school players that fans care about your program, that they're gonna be at the games. I think that's a huge key to success in college basketball.

No head coach does it by himself. I don't care who the coach is or how great he might be. Mike Krzyzewski is is a great friend of mine and he's a great coach but he has great, great assistant coaches and they bring a lot to the table and that's what it takes.

I don't love playing zone all the time, because it does have an effect on your offense.

Against our zone, even really good offensive teams take longer than usual to get into their patterns, maybe 30 seconds. So we're locked into playing defense for that long... it's hard to run on offense after you've been hunkering down on D for that long.

To stay in one time zone and play in a great conference - a great all-around conference, but, specifically, a great basketball conference - is a great thing.

I'm not trying to make a big deal out of this. It's just the things Donald Trump says are crazy. You can't say those things. You shouldn't say those things.

I first came to the Garden when I was a sophomore in college. The old, old Garden.

You give hundreds, probably thousands of speeches in this business, but you only get one chance to make an acceptance speech at the Hall of Fame. That's pressure.

It's college basketball and there's a certain amount of uncertainty. As an assistant coach, you do the best job you can to win.

You've got to understand, every kid in college basketball, if you ask them where they want to play a game, in the NBA or college, they will tell you Madison Square Garden, a huge percentage.

Klay Thompson stands out. He's just a tough kid.

There should be some civility when it comes to being president of the United States.

Greensboro's mad at me because I said I'd rather go to New York City for a week. Why would they be mad at me? Are they that parocial. I didn't say Greensboro wasn't a nice place. It's a very nice place. But if I had a choice for a week where I would go and ask somebody in North Carolina where they rather go for a week - Greensboro or New York City?

Mike D'Antoni is one of the best offensive coaches in the whole game of basketball, by far.