The University of Houston is a program that should have national relevance. — Kelvin Sampson Education Copy Share Image
If you are an Oklahoma football fan, you have one of the best football programs in the nation. — Kelvin Sampson Best Copy Share Image
Coaching is competitively addictive. It just gets in your blood, especially if you win. — Kelvin Sampson Blood Copy Share Image
One of the things I enjoy most about what I do is I can give my father joy. — Kelvin Sampson Enjoy Copy Share Image
Being Native American, we were different than everybody else, but I never felt like I was different. — Kelvin Sampson American 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 Back 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 Coach Copy Share Image
The most important thing in the world to me is my faith and my family. — Kelvin Sampson Faith Copy Share Image
The tobacco markets I worked in were segregated. If you went to the bathroom, there was 'White,' there was 'Colored,' and there… — Kelvin Sampson Bathroom Copy Share Image
When I was at Oklahoma, I always felt like I had to control the game because we didn't have great scorers. So,… — Kelvin Sampson Control 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 Coach 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 Been Copy Share Image
Little old University of Houston jumping up, swinging with the big boys, and that's something to take pride in. I'm happy for… — Kelvin Sampson Alumni Copy Share Image
I learned quickly in the NBA that you keep one eye open at all times and one ear closed. You can't react… — Kelvin Sampson Everything 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 Basketball team Copy Share Image
We have the wrong people chasing Osama bin Laden. It ought to be athletic directors and reporters. They'll find you. — Kelvin Sampson Athletic Copy Share Image
My personality is more like my mother's. She was fiery. She had more of a temper. I always thought she had enough… — Kelvin Sampson Children 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 Best Copy Share Image
My father had four jobs every summer. He taught driver's education. He sold World Book Encyclopedias. He sold life insurance. He worked… — Kelvin Sampson Books Copy Share Image
The one thing about Lumbee people is that there's so many stereotypes about Native Americans, especially reservation Native Americans, and we all… — Kelvin Sampson American Copy Share Image
With federal recognition, the Lumbee Tribe would become a full player in Indian country, no longer second class Indians in the eyes… — Kelvin Sampson Eyes 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 Cats Copy Share Image
Tim is old school. He plays that way. That's why a lot of fans identify more with a Tim Heskett than with… — Kelvin Sampson Eye Copy Share Image
The thing that surprised me is you hear a lot about NBA guys, do they really want to be coached? My experience… — Kelvin Sampson Coached Copy Share Image
