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.

Each Olympics is different with their own great parts to it.

Katie Ledecky is the best swimmer in the world. You could say she's impressive with what she can do in a pool.

The thing is, I'm a sports junkie.Everybody knows that. I could watch any of this stuff - track and field... anything - and really enjoy it.

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

I've said some things that are a little bit off the wall, but I don't run away and hide from them.

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

The national championship for Syracuse in 2003 will always be the high-water mark for me. That was my alma mater, my team, my players, our fans. That remains the top experience of my basketball life.

If you can get in trouble for supporting a friend you've known for almost 50 years, I don't want to live in that country.

When you can't be loyal to your friends, I don't like that world.

I'm not Joe Paterno. Somebody didn't come and tell me Bernie Fine did something and I'm hiding it.

I'm happy that we've won a lot of games. I don't think about it. I don't.

Why did Donald Trump become president? I don't know.

I never have been in Bernie Fine's hotel room in my life.

Georgetown is still Georgetown. They have got a tremendous name and recognition. They are in a great area and have a great school.

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

I hate losing more than I like winning.

I've always felt like a guy where the grass is greener on my side of the fence.

I've always felt like I was a college coach and I was a college coach for Syracuse. It just felt like the right thing.

I knew I could hang on in the NBA, but I wasn't going to play.

It's always important when you play in a tournament that they have a basketball court and an arena.

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.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

If you go to the Final Four, you can lose 20 games and it doesn't matter.

The only thing that matters in college basketball is going to the Final Four.

If we can lose 12 games every year and go to the Final Four every year, I'll take it. I'd rather do that than win 30 and not go to the Final Four.

The Final Four is what we play for. That's what we're trying to do. That's what's important.

It's so much harder to make the NBA than people think it is.

To stay in one time zone and play in a great conference - a great all-around conference, but, specifically, a great basketball conference - is a great thing.

The thing I hate about writers is they want to state their case and they use false information.

I never really thought that I was going to get out of coaching ever. In my fifth year, I thought I might get out. You have those thoughts in any job. But I never really, really thought I was going to get out.

As you get older, you should be better at coaching. You learn your lessons. You keep thinking and learning about it, you should be better than you.

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

The NBA has never drafted a player for defense. At any position, even at center.

It's college basketball and there's a certain amount of uncertainty. As an assistant coach, you do the best job you can to win.

I would be shocked if Tom Izzo left Michigan State.

I kind of like the idea of just coaching, nothing else. But I just think some coaches are better suited for college than the NBA. I believe I'm one of those guys. I think Tom Izzo is one of those guys. Mike Krzyzewski. I think they found the right jobs and they've stayed with them.

Great scorers tend to think they can score against anybody.

When you take over at Wisconsin, nobody's ever won there, nobody expects you to win and that's when it's really hard to do. And Bo Ryan won there, consistently.

Coaching people, people act differently, respond differently, hear things differently from different people.

I don't do a lot of things business-wise. For the most part, I focus on what my job is and do that.

A lot of coaches get involved in a lot of different things - car dealerships and restaurants and all kinds of things. I've never really done that.

I never said I'm unhappy about going to the ACC. I'm unhappy the Big East broke up. That's a completely different thing than saying I'm unhappy about going to the ACC.

I think we can benefit from being in the ACC. It's a great basketball league. If anything, it helps our recruiting.

Greensboro's mad at me because I said I'd rather go to New York City for a week. Why would they be mad at me? Are they that parocial. I didn't say Greensboro wasn't a nice place. It's a very nice place. But if I had a choice for a week where I would go and ask somebody in North Carolina where they rather go for a week - Greensboro or New York City?

I don't know if I could have made it as an NBA player. But I knew I could make it as a coach.

At 67, you are what you are. I think it's too late to change much.

No coach can really survive very well in this business without support from his family and friends.

I'm a competitor. I like to win games. I like basketball and I like to win games.

Mike D'Antoni is one of the best offensive coaches in the whole game of basketball, by far.