Jim Boeheim

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.

I've had good players in my time. I really have.

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.

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

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

We want every guy to graduate, and we work very hard on that.

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.

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.

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

If you say something you have to take responsibility for it.

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.