It's the greatest achievement I've ever witnessed in all my years of being a coach and a television personality. I really, absolutely have been blown away.

The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.

A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.

Life is simple. Make good decisions and good things happen. Make bad decisions and bad things happen.

A loser is someone who makes excuses and alibis and blames everyone else for their losses and failures.

People that don't know me think that basketball is my life 24/7. Trust me, there is much more to my life. My number one priority in my life is my family.

Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.

One day to see that headline, not that someone won a basketball championship, but to see that a cure for cancer has been found, will be a great day for mankind.

Looking back, I remember telling my daughters that we didn't have money, pizzazz and a lot of the things we have today, but we had so much love and we lived like millionaires.

It is time for everyone to sit down -the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity-and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.

You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.

Break your bad labels instead of living in them.

My fellow economists and academics fail to understand the economics of trade in the real world. Traditional models of academia respect free trade without considering whether it is fair trade.

My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen.

When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up

Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.

Chimps are far too much human to be my favorite animal.

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.