Jim Boeheim

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 live in the moment. I try to win as many games as I can in any given year. That's what I've always tried to do. But I don't dwell on the past games. That doesn't help you win games now. If that helped win games now, I'd dwell on them.

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.

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.

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.

I hate losing more than I like winning.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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