Player Quotes by Tom Thibodeau

If you don't control the ball, you're dead.

— Tom Thibodeau

I think the important thing for me is to just be able to have a voice.

— Tom Thibodeau

As a head coach, you're always concerned how you pace the team.

— Tom Thibodeau

When you look at coaching in the pros 25-plus years, I have been with rebuilding teams and I have been with championship teams, and…

— Tom Thibodeau

There are no short cuts. If you want to do something special, there's a serious price to pay. There's no way around it.

— Tom Thibodeau

I never look at a clock. When the work's done, the work's done.

— Tom Thibodeau

Passing and defense are two things that help build your team, brings the best out of people.

— Tom Thibodeau

When you look at what a coach does, it is leadership, it is communication, it is teaching, it is motivation. It really comes down…

— Tom Thibodeau

You can have a great season, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're great. To be great you have to do it year after year…

— Tom Thibodeau

The teams that win consistently, they put the work into it and they don't skip steps.

— Tom Thibodeau

You have to have core values. What do you believe in? Do you believe in hard work? Do you believe in discipline? Do you…

— Tom Thibodeau

I think I experienced it during the '90s that there's no better place to be than Madison Square Garden.

— Tom Thibodeau

It is rare when you have the opportunity to get a top-10 player.

— Tom Thibodeau

There's obviously different roads you can go down. And I think if you study it, how teams are built - and I went through…

— Tom Thibodeau

In some cases where the team is mixed, there's almost two practices going on in one, where your young guys are getting the work…

— Tom Thibodeau