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I think coaches should get the same amount of credit in victory that they get in defeat.
The public Yao was the private Yao: To his core, there was an unmistakable peace to him.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
My heading was NBA head coach. I didn't want to be back in college for a lot of reasons.
I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.
Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.
The two ingredients in success in basketball are playing hard and playing intelligently.
If you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
At the end of the day, no matter how well you score, you've got to be able to stop people
Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass.
Treat each player as your own son/daughter if you can...the parents have invested in you.
I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.
If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow
I hope one day I can come into a training camp and not say someone is out for the season.
We put a premium on knowing what the other team does. Then we try to take them out of it.
Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.
The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline.
I'm not railing, 'This is inadequate' or 'This isn't right.' Just show me what will work.
When you don't have much and you need to be at work, there's no such thing as being sick.
In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.
A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning.
To go from the middle to the top is one of the most difficult things you can do in sports.
It's about doing it in a way that it can't be done any better. That is the goal every day.
Don't encourage 8th-, 9th- and 10th-graders to forgo education just to go to the G League.
I've had transfer students who have never seen the inside of their previous coach's house.
Nobody believed in us. Everybody made fun of Houston basketball. I can't say I blamed 'em.
When I go to the line I'm thinking 'All net.' When I don't think that, I'm likely to miss.
I can see why fans don't like to watch pro basketball. I don't, either. It's not exciting.
The changes in your life aren't always what you hoped for. But they usually help you grow.
People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.
You can have great players, but if they dont want to be coached, what are you going to do?
Coaches are going to adapt to whatever the rules are. The rules certainly change strategy.
While people can differ on the issues, no one should seek to discourage freedom of speech.
People should never be permitted to feel comfortable while trampling the rights of others.
I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
You could be adding gasoline to a roaring fire. We understand that. But this is who we are.
Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.
When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.
Nothing. I was confused for two years. I didn't understand anything and I'm still confused.
The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players
Mike D'Antoni is one of the best offensive coaches in the whole game of basketball, by far.
Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?
Freshman want to play. Sophomores want to start. Juniors want to score. Seniors want to win
He helped my career, helped me basketball-wise and every other way. I'm a big fan of Thibs.