Hoosier Pride Quotes

First and foremost, Indiana will always be a basketball state.

The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.

I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.

Hoosiers sent me to Washington to offer solutions.

I just think to be in that place, to be surrounded as I will and for my brief moment in the inauguration ceremony by my wife and by my children and my daughter-in-law, with family looking on from behind us in the platform and many Hoosiers coming to be out in the crowds, I expect - it's again, it will be very, very humbling.

In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball.

Indiana basketball is bigger than one person.

I've always been proud of being a Hoosier. When I talk to people, I tell them that.

I want to say to you Indiana people that I owe you a big, big debt of gratitude because nowhere in the world is a sporting group followed more than this state follows basketball. And I just want to thank you for the opportunity that I had to coach in this state - it will always be something that I will cherish.