Tom Heinsohn

What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you…

— Tom Heinsohn

If I was going to get beat up, I wanted to be indoors where it was warm.

— Tom Heinsohn

I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in…

— Tom Heinsohn

I enjoy watching competitive people. You watch 'em come and you watch 'em go, and how they try to be the best.…

— Tom Heinsohn

I don't know what it is about me: I am no Rock Hudson, but I absolutely wow all the little old white-haired…

— Tom Heinsohn

Talk radio around Boston is brutal, and I think that's part of what goes on is that people as they're driving to…

— Tom Heinsohn

I think my broadcast partner Mike Gorman said it best. He said there's a generation of fans who know me as a…

— Tom Heinsohn

Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is…

— Tom Heinsohn

My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college. We were poor, but she wanted me to have…

— Tom Heinsohn

I play basketball for love and money, and they come in interchangeable order, depending on how things are going when you ask…

— Tom Heinsohn

As the wonderful agony begins for 1964-65, I sometimes wonder why I do it. I've got an insurance business going on the…

— Tom Heinsohn

About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but…

— Tom Heinsohn

Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there arent very many big men people coaching, I happen to…

— Tom Heinsohn

He was a terrific guy. It is a great loss to the sports world. Wilt Chamberlain had a special place in basketball…

— Tom Heinsohn

In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams…

— Tom Heinsohn

It was difficult being a neutral broadcaster - in the people's eyes - because of my association with the Celtics.

— Tom Heinsohn

You gotta learn that if you're gonna take the last shot of the game, it's either gonna go in, or it's not…

— Tom Heinsohn

Anybody that shoots a hook shot, whatever hand, I jump up and cheer because it's the easiest shot, it's the best tweener…

— Tom Heinsohn