Rick Carlisle

Anything can be fixed, if you have the right parts.

— Rick Carlisle

Mistakes are how you learn.

— Rick Carlisle

Sometimes success is a form of adversity.

— Rick Carlisle

Domas is a guy that's effective in the paint.

— Rick Carlisle

Everybody plays Dirk hard and physically.

— Rick Carlisle

Great sport has intellectual beauty.

— Rick Carlisle

Thibs is a difference-maker, man.

— Rick Carlisle

If we were a sex manual it'd be a best-seller.

— Rick Carlisle

I was very fortunate to be at the right place at the right time in my playing career.

— Rick Carlisle

You can't hit a guy in the face when you shoot the jump shot.

— Rick Carlisle

The relationships that you build are really the greatest source of fulfillment in coaching.

— Rick Carlisle

My memory is programmed to last about as long as an egg-timer.

— Rick Carlisle

People don't talk about Tobias Harris enough. You know, he's a tremendous player.

— Rick Carlisle

A big part of life is acceptance of your situation, whatever it is.

— Rick Carlisle

Jalen Brunson is a guy you would never bet against if you know him. You just don't bet against that guy.

— Rick Carlisle

To me, there's a small group of players that can pretty much do anything on a basketball floor.

— Rick Carlisle

The wrong types of distractions generally aren't good. But they're going to have to be overcome by any team at some point.

— Rick Carlisle

There's no doubt in my mind that for Luka Doncic, winning is the No. 1 and most important thing, hands down.

— Rick Carlisle

Dirk played with Jason Kidd near the end of his career and Jason was still a great player, but he did not…

— Rick Carlisle

What the great players in history of sport have in common is they can take the understanding of the entertainment side and…

— Rick Carlisle

Imagine an NBA season where you don't have to travel. Whoever heard of something like that? If you can't look at that…

— Rick Carlisle

Being historically great on offense is fun, but even dating a pretty girl gets boring after awhile if she can't guard anybody.

— Rick Carlisle

The reality is if they want more scoring, they're going to have to do one thing and that's make the rim bigger.

— Rick Carlisle

It's the NBA, it's not supposed to be easy. If it was, I'd be pulling guys off the street. It's a tough,…

— Rick Carlisle

Chuck Daly and Rudy Tomjanovich have many of the same amazing accomplishments and traits - both won back to back NBA titles,…

— Rick Carlisle

If you increase the size of the basket by a one-inch radius, two inches in diameter, that's five percent. So you're adding…

— Rick Carlisle

The important thing is that when you get into some stretches of inconsistency that we don't overreact on the one hand and…

— Rick Carlisle

It's much easier to slow a point guard down than to have one speed up. That's why one of the axioms in…

— Rick Carlisle

About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and…

— Rick Carlisle

The piano has been a love of mine ever since I started playing in college, so having the chance to play a…

— Rick Carlisle

It's a great honor to represent your team at the All-Star Game, but it's tricky. One of the things you don't like…

— Rick Carlisle

Unselfishness and defense are our two biggest things. That's our starting point. If you have those two things as foundational building blocks,…

— Rick Carlisle

Ron Artest has really earned the title All-Star.

— Rick Carlisle

I think Thibs is a great coach. When he went to Chicago they had immediate success.

— Rick Carlisle

Unselfishness along with defensive impact is going to break a lot of ties.

— Rick Carlisle

Prosperity is always one of the challenges in pro sports because teams can strike back so quickly.

— Rick Carlisle

In the case of anything, there is risk, but there are risks worth taking.

— Rick Carlisle

The playoffs - you can talk about how different it is, but actually experiencing it is another thing.

— Rick Carlisle

Ron Washington is one of the real treasures in all of sports.

— Rick Carlisle

Dirk's one of the top players of all time. That's undisputed.

— Rick Carlisle