Top 104 Quotes & Sayings by Jim Boeheim - Page 2

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.

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

I think the only thing to consider is do you want to try to coach in the NBA and for me it never was an issue. I never really had that desire.

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

I hate losing more than I like winning.

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

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

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

It's so much harder to make the NBA than people think it is.

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.

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

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.

I've learned to accept death better than most people.

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

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.

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

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

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'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 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.

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

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.

Coaching people, people act differently, respond differently, hear things differently from different people.

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.

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

I didn't work out from 30 to 68. I just started working out when I turned 68.

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 would be shocked if Tom Izzo left Michigan State.

I never said I'm unhappy about going to the ACC. I'm unhappy the Big East broke up. That's a completely different thing than saying I'm unhappy about going to the ACC.

I don't like change that much.

Great scorers tend to think they can score against anybody.

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.

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

I knew I could hang on in the NBA, but I wasn't going to play.

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 don't do a lot of things business-wise. For the most part, I focus on what my job is and do that.

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.

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

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?

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.

If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?

I'm not Derek Jeter, there will be no farewell tour.

I'm not Joe Paterno. Somebody didn't come and tell me Bernie Fine did something and I'm hiding it. I know nothing. If I saw some reason not to support Bernie, I would not support him. If somebody showed me a reason, proved that reason, I would not support him. But until then, I'll support him until the day I die.

I came here...in 1962. I'm not going anywhere.