Tom Izzo
If you ever get a chance to do something outside the box... I say step outside the box.Collection: Chance
Time doesn't heal, time helps heal and learning helps heal.
I've taken the blame when I deserve the blame.
Coaches tell you things for a reason. If they tell you to keep your head up, there's a reason. If they tell you to get the ball ready to shoot, there's a reason.
I'm worried about what betters the game and what betters the student-athlete.
What is a leader? How can you be successful without one, whether it's corporately or whether it's team-wise or whether it's school-wise, whether it's community-wise or whether it's nation-wise?
All that being a college coach has done, is it's reaffirmed the need to take care of our young people. They're the ones that are going to make a difference. We spend a lot of time blaming them for stuff, and not enough time mentoring them and helping them stand on their own two feet.
There is nothing, nothing, nothing like experience - nothing. You can't coach it, you can't teach it, you can't do it - there is nothing like experience.
Sometimes if you have two or three at the top it makes the league look good, of course. But the real value of a league is what are teams 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
I get out a lot recruiting. Sometimes it's long distance, sometimes it close.
When your two major sports, your two revenue sports, are going well, that bodes well for the whole university.
You've got to be a sneakerhead if you're a coach and you're dealing with 16 to 22-year-olds and selfishly, I kind of like them myself.
Words can't truly express what Mike Garland means to me. We've been friends since we met the first night in college and basically have lived the rest of our professional lives together. To say he's just my friend doesn't even scratch the surface of our relationship. He's my brother for life.
A player gets into the Hall because of his abilities. A coach gets in because of his players' ability.
Two years in a row, I went to Kuwait for a week. I lived in the barracks with U.S. troops; that was pretty interesting.
In the NBA, you never know who you will play for, who is coaching you, what the general managers are like.
When you know your players are doing the right things in the locker room, the dorm room, on the plane, it makes you more relaxed.
I spent years sleeping with both eyes open.
We're past the days of Vince Lombardi, where you say jump and I ask: 'How high?' But you still have to find a way to get your guys to jump, get them to trust you.
When I grew up, you trusted anyone of authority. Kids don't trust people any more, and I don't blame them. We have to earn their trust, and it takes time.
Timing in life can be cruel and it can be funny.
The early years of my career weren't exactly smooth, as we struggled to make any sort of postseason appearance.
Looking at the big picture, I know God put me in the right spot, with the right mentor.
Going into the Hall of Fame isn't something I even dreamed about so it's hard to think about what it will be like until I get there.
I've always said I wanted to be somewhere where basketball and football were really good together.
Football and basketball have similar problems and similar positives.
I'm not a great golfer but I'm a competitive golfer and I think I could be good if I could spend some time on it.
I'm not into big-time gambling.
I want to go to Scotland in particular. If I had a bucket list, that would be on my bucket list.
I love tradition.
Being a good leader is feeling what's needed to be said.
The price of leadership is strange.
No comment always means you're hiding something.
The upsets are bigger deals when you're thought of as a bigger deal.
Usually players make the most progress in the summer between their freshmen and sophomore seasons.
I hope I get remembered as a working man, not anybody that just had everything.
I guess I was a decent basketball player - pass first, pass second, shoot third... pretty good defensively.
I have a great appreciation for walk-ons.
I think it's a shame that all we talk about is the one-and-done players.
I learned that every opportunity is one that has to be seized.
I think it's good when you're versatile.
Really good leaders help others become better than they are.
You've got to fight through some adversity. You've got to have some tough times. You've got to have some rainy days.
Remember, talent doesn't win championships, talent doesn't win games.
I've had incredible mentors, people around me, my whole life.
I've learned that people that question you are going to question you, the haters are going to hate you.
We all think there's greener things on the other side. We all take for granted what we have. I don't care who we are.
I'm a pizza guy, so yes, I love cheese!
It's easy to become a better basketball player but harder to become a better teammate or person.
You have to get to Mackinac Island once or twice and, of course, coming up to the Mackinac Bridge is just awesome to me.