Kelvin Sampson

The reason you get into coaching in the first place is to help and develop, try to make people better.

I've had teams where we've had to get on a bus for 200 miles, play a game, and then drive 200 miles back.

My heading was NBA head coach. I didn't want to be back in college for a lot of reasons.

It was never my intent to come back to college.

The most overrated thing is that you're a good defensive team because of your coaching. No. You're a good defensive team because you care and because it's important to you.

The bad teams in our league are the ones who don't pass the ball well.

When I left college ball, I think I was prepared to coach a team, but I don't think I was prepared to help the team win.

Iowa State's a great team; I know how tough they are in Ames.

I just coach my team. I just focus on coaching my team.

Tough teams win when the shots are not going.

The one thing about Lumbee people is that there's so many stereotypes about Native Americans, especially reservation Native Americans, and we all tend to get lumped under that umbrella. But the Lumbee are non-reservation. I grew up no different than anybody would in normal American communities.

Being Native American, we were different than everybody else, but I never felt like I was different.