Jim Boeheim

Coach

1944-11-17

Jim Boeheim is an American basketball coach best known for his long tenure leading Syracuse University men's basketball.

Quotes by Jim Boeheim

I've always felt like I was a college coach and I was a college coach for Syracuse. It just felt like the right thing.
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It's a myth that I run things at Syracuse University.
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The national championship for Syracuse in 2003 will always be the high-water mark for me. That was my alma mater, my team, my players, our fans. That remains the top experience of my basketball life.
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Syracuse, New York, is like Hawaii for eight months of the year. The other four months, I don't care about the weather because we're playing basketball.
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Against our zone, even really good offensive teams take longer than usual to get into their patterns, maybe 30 seconds. So we're locked into playing defense for that long... it's hard to run on offense after you've been hunkering down on D for that long.
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I've seen countless situations where I've been around him where he always does the right thing, 100 percent of the time. Tom Izzo would never do the wrong thing. And anybody that thinks other than that, they don't know Tom Izzo. I know him.
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