All I wanted to do is coach in the NBA. I didn't want anything to do with college basketball. — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
I always talk about my dad because he was a coach, and I became a coach. — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
There's some things assistant coaches aren't ready to do. They're not the head coach. — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
My heading was NBA head coach. I didn't want to be back in college for a lot of reasons. — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
When I left college ball, I think I was prepared to coach a team, but I don't think I was prepared to… — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
When I first got to Oklahoma, it was really a blessing that coach Sutton was at Oklahoma State. He made me a… — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
You coach at a have-not school, and you have to have a competitiveness and a resolve and resiliency about you that's different,… — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
I'm 50 years old and been a college coach for 23 years, but after 12 years, no matter where you are, there… — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
I have made the very difficult decision to leave my position as head coach of the men's basketball team at Indiana University. — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
I don't think I was a good enough coach to help an NBA team win a game when I first got to… — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
Kevin McHale was a master communicator and knows how to coach stars, and that's a unique gift because you take an old-school… — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
My dad was a high school coach for 30-plus years in North Carolina, and he was inducted into the North Carolina High… — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
I didn't realize the difference between coaching college and coaching the NBA. It's a totally different animal. — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share
Nobody believed in us. Everybody made fun of Houston basketball. I can't say I blamed 'em. — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share
As an outsider, when you think of Indiana, you think about a place that not only has championships but a championship tradition. — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share
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… — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share
One of the first things people think of when they think of Native Americans is reservations. We didn't have any idea what that was.… — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share
The one thing that young coaches should do is if there is an NBA team in your area, get to training camp and see… — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share
When I was at Oklahoma, I always felt like I had to control the game because we didn't have great scorers. So, I had… — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share
