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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.

Syracuse, New York, is like Hawaii for eight months of the year. The other four months, I don't care about the weather because we're playing basketball.

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

You don't play extra guys just to play them. You play 'em because they can help you in some way.

It's not harder to make a couple extra substitutions. That's not hard. You get different things when you make changes, you gain things and you lose things. But overall, if you gain things, that's why you play extra guys.

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.

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

The facts are, when we played here, we were treated better in Greensboro than any other tournament venue.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I loved Jud Heathcote.

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.

It's a myth that I run things at Syracuse University.

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've always felt in life, you get a lot of things you have to overcome.

The thing is 3,900 out of 4,000 college basketball players are very happy to have a scholarship. They're happy. They've got a $70,000 scholarship and they've got money in their pocket. It's the other hundred guys and they're all going to make money playing basketball and the top guys are going to make a lot of money.

The NBA is going to do what they want to do. They're going to do what's best for them; not what's best for us.

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.

I like coaching.

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

The ACC is a great league.

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.

You've got to work your way into the NBA. Guys like Seth Curry, it took him a couple years in the G-League.

They don't work with you to get better in the NBA. Either you're ready or you're out and you go to the G-League or Europe.

College, our job is to get guys to get better. Work hard, get better and be in position so when your time comes you get to play in the NBA.

You can't put pressure on yourself. You've just got to go out and play.

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