The guy who started on third base and gets home and acts like he hit a homer - that guy doesn't impress me.
In my humble opinion, again, to perform at Alabama, you must earn the spot and not have it given to you. You have to fight like crazy to keep the spot and that it's not guaranteed - it's week to week - and you'll play in a way that they have a chance to win a championship.
Everybody wants to say that Kentucky fans are vicious or obnoxious. They're not. They're crazy in that they watch the tape of our games more than I do. But they're passionate and smart.
When you're coaching at Kentucky, you're held to a different standard, and like in politics, there is a core group that absolutely loves you, and everyone else is trying to unseat you in any way they can - anything to trip you up; that's what it is. If you're not up to that, then don't coach at Kentucky.
They want it all - all As, all wins by 20, and want the highest GPA. Don't coach at Kentucky if you can't accept that.
The opportunity to coach Kerry Kittles I wouldn't give up for anything.
I'd love to be coaching kids three or four years. You kidding me? That's what I used to do.
The best food I've had in Lexington is Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt. It's non-guilt ice cream!
You cannot please everybody. You keep marching forward.
Malik Monk is special. Special.
I had no desire to coach college until I went to college. Then I said, 'Maybe I can do this.' You get inspired by the people around you who move you and light a fire under you.
Any coach out there that wants to lose, you make sure they put raisins in the breakfast oatmeal. You'll go down, don't worry about that.
I think I'm overrated as a recruiter.
You're coaching Kentucky - and you have a chance to change lives. That's not what this is up there in the NBA. You have assets. You're trying to piece a team together. You're trying to win more games than the other guy. You're trying to advance in the playoffs, and if you don't, they'll find somebody else that can.
If you recruit a kid, and you're promising him the world, how in the world are you going to coach him in that short a period of time to do that?
I'm not embarrassed about how we recruit, how we treat kids, and how we coach them.
More than half the G League is going to be high school kids that are trying to make it. I hope I'm wrong. I absolutely hope I'm wrong.
If they're trying to get high school kids to go to the D-League, I will be shouting from mountaintops saying, 'What is this going to do to a generation of kids who say, 'All right, I'm going to do this,' you get one or two years to make it, and now you're out without any opportunities. Who's taking care of those kids now?'
Can I say this in a humble way - I don't need the money. If I stop coaching today at Kentucky, my toes are up, and I'm eating Cheetos, and I'm fine.
I've always taken the approach that it's about the seed in the NCAA tournament.
