Scott Brooks Quotes

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• I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness…
• I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.
• I've never talked to our guys about being young. That's an easy crutch to fall on. You really just have to come in and build…
• The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel.
• The NBA needs more of that 'it's-about-us-against-them' mentality.
• There are 30 great jobs in the NBA, and I've got one of them.
• There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.
• You can have great players, but if they dont want to be coached, what are you going to do?
• To this day, I hate walnuts and I hate onions because on weekends when the walnuts and onions were in season, we were out there…
• I love being in the gym.
• When you don't have much and you need to be at work, there's no such thing as being sick.
• When you have an intense game, you're going to have arguments. I have no problem with it. I think it's healthy.
• I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if…
• When you get punched, you have to get up.You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to…
• You don't think the losing is ever going to end, but when it does end, you get to enjoy it and keep working with it…
• Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man.
• You play 20 games, you have one bad game, I think any team in this league will live with that.
• Mind games to me are overrated.

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