Monty Williams

I tend to state the facts.

— Monty Williams

Everybody's not 7-1, 335 and can dance.

— Monty Williams

I try to be respectful.

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It's a skill to navigate uncertainty.

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Everybody is beatable.

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Life's not fair. Don't expect it to be.

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I think facts remove assumptions.

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The essence of my coaching is to serve.

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How can you stay in touch with what's going on if you don't read everything?

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In life, and in basketball, if you lay the truth out there, people don't have to guess.

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I've learned I would rather be effective over right.

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I get how you have to marinate your bigs. They take longer.

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Communication is huge and a lot of it is knowing what to say, and it takes time.

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The way I've always approached every situation is to not get too far ahead of myself.

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I want to have something substantial to say or I'm just not going to say anything.

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Everything you want is on the other side of hard.

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A lot of young guys nowadays, when you start talking about guys wanting to get paid or what's best for them, they…

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It's just life. You have to be able to get up, face your flaws, and just, whatever it is, a step, an…

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There are so many things you can lose sight of as you try to win games and all the stuff we try…

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When I was in Portland, they started pushing me to do more media when they thought I was going to be a…

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I want to continue to climb up the mountain of life and try to get everything that God has for me.

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Having already been a head coach and having been fired, you never want to be in a situation where you're not prepared.

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In our case, my children and I couldn't have made it through the tough times without the grace of God and the…

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The reality is we live in a world that's filled with stuff, but quitting is not an option.

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We talk about touching our guys in a personal way, knowing that we all want to play basketball and coach basketball, but…

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I want to help guys get better. I want to help them get paid. I want to help them win games, but…

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We're not going to ride on Space Mountain and do the Disney thing. Forget Mickey. This is freaking 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator' stuff…

— Monty Williams

The music before the game, they're playing old-school music and it's right above your locker room and you're like, 'These people are…

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So many reporters ask a lot of crazy questions. The answers to most of these questions are so obvious, but they ask…

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I was just trying to coach and that was the only thing I knew. Coach the team. I think for me, ten…

— Monty Williams

I have to be real with my kids. Life is precious. They know that. Yet, I have to remind them that they're…

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We got to figure out or define what is a legal guarding position because there are times where he can move his…

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In this league, the truth helps guys out.

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I just don't look at jobs and say, 'Well, I'd rather coach here and not there.'

— Monty Williams

To be able to win on a Game 7 in The Finals, was a huge experience for me.

— Monty Williams

If I do have a strength, it probably is adaptability.

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The one thing that Pop taught me was to be myself.

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As soon as you lose one game, you're going to deal with the criticism.

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I'm a man who has failed in many areas, but the one thing I don't want to do is quit.

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I learned a long time ago that you can't skip steps.

— Monty Williams