Tom Izzo

I love tradition.

— Tom Izzo

I'm not into big-time gambling.

— Tom Izzo

We can all be leaders.

— Tom Izzo

Players play, tough players win,

— Tom Izzo

You have to learn how to compete.

— Tom Izzo

Listen, I learn lessons, too.

— Tom Izzo

I'm into all the peaceful protests.

— Tom Izzo

Today's society wants to skip the process. And I hate that

— Tom Izzo

I am an educator, my degree's in education.

— Tom Izzo

I've taken the blame when I deserve the blame.

— Tom Izzo

The price of leadership is strange.

— Tom Izzo

I'm pleased to say I am here for life at Michigan State.

— Tom Izzo

My dad didn't give me a lot of freedom.

— Tom Izzo

You can't like your rival, but you can respect your rival.

— Tom Izzo

I have my own goals and dreams and I have my own aspirations of what I want to do.

— Tom Izzo

Don't eat three pizzas when you sit down at night, and a gallon of ice cream. It works wonders.

— Tom Izzo

I think unless you trust someone to tell you what you're doing wrong, you don't really sometimes realize what you're doing.

— Tom Izzo

If you ever get a chance to do something outside the box... I say step outside the box.

— Tom Izzo

I've learned that people that question you are going to question you, the haters are going to hate you.

— Tom Izzo

Looking at the big picture, I know God put me in the right spot, with the right mentor.

— Tom Izzo

It's easy to become a better basketball player but harder to become a better teammate or person.

— Tom Izzo

It's hard to do wrong when the chief of police lives on the right side of you and the principal on the…

— Tom Izzo

I'll go to the grocery store or gas station, and someone says, 'What are you doing here? You pump your own gas?'…

— Tom Izzo

The one thing that my parents have told me and I try to tell my kids it doesn't matter how much fame,…

— Tom Izzo

We're past the days of Vince Lombardi, where you say jump and I ask: 'How high?' But you still have to find…

— Tom Izzo

There is nothing, nothing, nothing like experience - nothing. You can't coach it, you can't teach it, you can't do it -…

— Tom Izzo

You've got to deal with sometimes what life throws at you, and life has thrown some things at me and life has…

— Tom Izzo

The one-and-done thing is a phenomenon. I don't know if it's going to last, if it's going to be that way all…

— Tom Izzo

You tell your players all the time: 'Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.' I think I'm in a…

— Tom Izzo

Redshirt years, even though they are painful to go through, when you do go through them, if you are a driven guy,…

— Tom Izzo

I try to tell my guys, don't wish your way out of high school. You never get to go back to high…

— Tom Izzo

I feel like I spend a lot of time in the inner cities and around different people, and always felt like I…

— Tom Izzo

All that being a college coach has done, is it's reaffirmed the need to take care of our young people. They're the…

— Tom Izzo

Words can't truly express what Mike Garland means to me. We've been friends since we met the first night in college and…

— Tom Izzo

We want men here, not just players. Players are a dime a dozen

— Tom Izzo

Really good leaders help others become better than they are.

— Tom Izzo

I have a great appreciation for walk-ons.

— Tom Izzo

I spent years sleeping with both eyes open.

— Tom Izzo

Being a good leader is feeling what's needed to be said.

— Tom Izzo

Timing in life can be cruel and it can be funny.

— Tom Izzo