Football Quotes by Jim Boeheim

The ACC is a great league.

— Jim Boeheim

I like coaching.

— Jim Boeheim

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

— Jim Boeheim

There are different psychologies that different coaches have.

— Jim Boeheim

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

— Jim Boeheim

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

— Jim Boeheim

Klay Thompson stands out. He's just a tough kid.

— Jim Boeheim

Great scorers tend to think they can score against anybody.

— Jim Boeheim

I mean, it's very difficult up there in the NBA.

— Jim Boeheim

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

— Jim Boeheim

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

— Jim Boeheim

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

— Jim Boeheim

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

— Jim Boeheim

The NBA is going to do what they want to do. They're going to do what's best for them; not what's best…

— Jim Boeheim

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

— Jim Boeheim

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

— Jim Boeheim

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

— Jim Boeheim

You've got to understand, every kid in college basketball, if you ask them where they want to play a game, in the…

— Jim Boeheim

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

— Jim Boeheim

I grew up in the Big East Conference for 30 years. We were a conference that was nothing. We were a bunch…

— Jim Boeheim

If we can lose 12 games every year and go to the Final Four every year, I'll take it. I'd rather do…

— Jim Boeheim

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…

— Jim Boeheim

A lot of coaches get involved in a lot of different things - car dealerships and restaurants and all kinds of things.…

— Jim Boeheim

I think the only thing to consider is do you want to try to coach in the NBA and for me it…

— Jim Boeheim

I know every year what my players get and what courses they get them in. I get a report every semester. What…

— Jim Boeheim

No head coach does it by himself. I don't care who the coach is or how great he might be. Mike Krzyzewski…

— Jim Boeheim

You can lose a coach every once in a while. You really need to keep an athletic director because you need a…

— Jim Boeheim

Roy Williams has been a great coach every game since the beginning at Kansas.

— Jim Boeheim

You don't play extra guys just to play them. You play 'em because they can help you in some way.

— Jim Boeheim

We guard the shooter. A lot of guys shoot way behind the 3-point line. We guard where the shooter is, not where…

— Jim Boeheim

You've got to work your way into the NBA. Guys like Seth Curry, it took him a couple years in the G-League.

— Jim Boeheim

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

— Jim Boeheim

Unfortunately, in our business, it's all about the tournament when you're a good team.

— Jim Boeheim

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

— Jim Boeheim

If I could hire a coach in this country and I could get Tony Bennett, there would be nobody in second place.…

— Jim Boeheim

When you take over at Kansas, they've always won, so you're expected to win.

— Jim Boeheim

They don't work with you to get better in the NBA. Either you're ready or you're out and you go to the…

— Jim Boeheim

College, our job is to get guys to get better. Work hard, get better and be in position so when your time…

— Jim Boeheim