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Family keeps you very grounded.
I've never really been a barbecue guy.
You don't have to be humbled to be humble.
I'm a product of Pat Riley and his culture.
You have to stick to your goals of progress.
Nothing is absolutely 100 percent guaranteed.
Don't focus on the victory, focus on the task.
Seasons just don't go easy all the way through.
Sometimes things don't happen on your timetable.
It's amazing how much things can get exaggerated.
You have to be ready for anything in the playoffs.
Simplicity is often one of the greatest strengths.
Painful experiences can be the most powerful teacher.
If you want something badly enough, you'll figure it out.
It's my personality naturally to try to fly under the radar.
League-wide, 99 percent of the rumors are just way off base.
I don't condemn fans for getting excited about possibilities.
I've learned pretty quickly you better be able to adjust daily.
True success in the N.B.A., you must have consistency of culture.
It's a treasure to be part of a Game 7 against a worthy opponent.
I just hate this term of 'essential' staff, and 'non-essential' staff.
It's really a shame for the coaching profession that it's so volatile.
It's always easier to sacrifice when you're not the one who has to do it.
Look, we're the Miami Heat, so we know how to work, we know how to grind.
You better believe Goran Dragic is going to have a big impact on the ball.
My first year in Miami, I didn't even know it was sunny during the winter.
If you're only focusing on yourself, then you're not going to help the team.
You can't stay who you are... Things change and you have to be able to adapt.
Zones are easier just to throw out there and you don't have to really teach it.
When things that normally work aren't working, you have to go to something else.
I say it time and time again: You have to do things with force and speed and pace.
The most important thing is there is a foundation and an accountability to a system.
I'm an NBA basketball coach. I'm not an official, and I'm not trying to be an official.
I've traveled enough around the world with the NBA to see how much it's grown, globally.
It is terrific to be involved with changing people's perceptions, and the world is changing.
I have to be true to myself, and that's what I know for sure. I can't try to be anybody else.
I'm definitely not trying to go out of my way to create my own image or ensure my own imprint.
The reality is that luck does play a part of it. It does. Ultimately it's a make or miss league.
I have too many to count. Put it this way, I rival my wife with the amount of shoes she has in Jordans.
When you're usually competing and contending, you're not relying on younger players to produce for you.
When players come in and we talk to them about what it means to be a Miami Heat player, we point them at Udonis Haslem.
The officials have a tough job to do. But that's what they're hired to do and that's what they spend all their time doing.
Don’t brush anything under the rug. Don’t point fingers or do the blame game. A team is a family, and we’re in this together.
When I see a league with a lot of change and turnover, yes, there's a lot of big narratives out there, but I see opportunity.
We don't teach player development in that way, to be able to try to trick the officials or make sounds or jerk your head back.
If you're a competitor, this is what you want. You want all of the games to have meaning, context and to be the best competition.
Each game, each series, there's so many different things that are going on and you have to find different ways to impact winning.
Really, the scheme is not going to win you a possession or even a game. You have to burn some calories and make some things happen.
I'm going to demand. I'm going to push and prod. And a lot of times, players don't know what is needed for a team to break through.
The more that we've tried to think conventionally in terms of guys playing just a specific position, it restricted us a little bit.