Chuck Daly Quotes

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• It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
• A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.
• Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.
• Defense can't guard two things in a row.
• Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.
• The first shot does not beat you.
• If one of our players gets his second foul in the first half, then he must come out of the game and not re-enter until…
• Athletes that can't listen, can condition.
• If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work.
• Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them
• I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players
• The less determined and the less motivated weed themselves out.
• Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.
• The two championship years were that significant for me.
• I do some broadcasting and speaking as well.
• I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the…
• I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.
• The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.
• There's nothing like being involved with a team that can go that distance.
• Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I…

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