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I appreciate who I work with, I appreciate the players and the staff.
Always have your players go and pick-up the guy who draws the charge.
We were poor and lived modestly, but we always had food on the table.
My wife thinks I'm very hot. She tells me that every couple of weeks.
My intensity is my greatest strength. It's also my greatest weakness.
Leaving Oklahoma for Illinois is not the no-brainer some think it is.
You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.
The big thing is to make a winning effort. Im not obsessed with wins.
If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.
It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.
He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.
There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.
Sometimes standing up for things that are right makes things tougher.
Don't be afraid to let your players know how much you care about them
We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.
I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.
Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.
It was our third game in five days. It seemed to have an impact on us.
As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.
We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).
Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
It's really a shame for the coaching profession that it's so volatile.
I just hate this term of 'essential' staff, and 'non-essential' staff.
In case of dispute, the umpire shall throw it straight into the field.
You start comparing people, and ultimately, somebody feels diminished.
I'm in favour of drug tests, just so long as they are multiple choice.
You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.
The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
The big thing is to make a winning effort. I'm not obsessed with wins.
Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
I don't think my dad ever raised his voice to my mother or to me, ever.
Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.
This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.
Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.
If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
KeyArena was rocking, loud. The Finals in '96, I thought that was loud.
I've been blessed. I've had a great life and am continuing to have one.
You need your best players to play their best when their best is needed
I told them not to worry about it, since we were going to play indoors.
I've always felt in life, you get a lot of things you have to overcome.