Winners train, losers complain. Give me twelve players that want to win and they will find a way to win..

You've got to avoid overcoaching. You've got to avoid talking too much. You've got to avoid showing players that you're the boss every time. You don'….

He has the players too happy..

I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a hole..

All records are made to be broken..

Everything can happen in the playoffs..

You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches.

I've turned down a lot of trades where I might have gotten a better player, but I wasn't totally sure of the chemistry of that new player coming in. ….

If I'm going to coach the players, I want some say on who they're going to be..

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best..

You see, in sports you have so many things that aren't expected. There's so much uncertainty. So when players find themselves in a situation where ma….

Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court..

You can't win without the ball..

You handle animals. You deal with people..

I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Anybody who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses...so what?.

I never had a set of rules. Every situation is different..

If you're keeping score, win!.

If they think we've got an edge, we've got an edge..

I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club..

Look after your people..

The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind..