Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do

- Doc Rivers

If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

- Doc Rivers

Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth

- Doc Rivers

(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

- Doc Rivers

I just think a guy that knows how to play when you put him on a good team, he can be really good.

- Doc Rivers

I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots

- Doc Rivers

If you're a great defensive player, you're a great defensive player 100% of the time. You can't be a great defensive player half of the time because …

- Doc Rivers

Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have.

- Doc Rivers

I think the biggest statement we can make as men, not as black men, as men, is to stick together and show how strong we are as a group. Not splinter.…

- Doc Rivers