Jim Harrick Quotations

Let me ask you something. What would you do if you were falsely accused? ... I'm fine, but I'm worried about my son. He's one of the finest assistant coaches in America, but he's been stigmatized. He has no job right now, but he's had two or three people tell him they would hire him if all this wasn't going on.

We will not allow any of our players to fall through the cracks.

Ed wasn't going to let that happen to us again. He needed confidence in his knee to get past the injury, and the determination he showed that season was something special.

It's hard for me to answer that, because I didn't have anything to do with the class. Jim was told he had to offer a final, but it didn't have an effect on anyone's grade. So his guest lecturer and some of the assistants had fun with it. You can say that was wrong, but it was not anything fraudulent. Fraudulent is when you do somebody else's paper or tutors write them and things like that. That just wasn't the case.

I want to teach the post basic moves: turn and bank; drop-step and shoot a power layup; turn to the middle, pump-fake, one-bounce layup; and I want to teach five power moves. They are power layup straight up; pump-fake one bounce to the other side power layup; pogo when you catch it up high, keep it up high, and shoot it; and then the two-hand follow shot.

Praise your kids. Inspire and motivate your players with praise. Ten years from now it won't matter what your record was. Will your kids love you or hate you?

Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success.

I could watch it a million more times and never get tired of it. I still love it, just like the first time.