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“I don't know where all this stuff comes from. This guy is an offensive guru. This guy is a defensive guru.' I don't even understand that. To me, you're a basketball coach.”

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If you don't control the ball, you're dead.

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I think the important thing for me is to just be able to have a voice.

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As a head coach, you're always concerned how you pace the team.

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When you look at coaching in the pros 25-plus years, I have been with rebuilding teams and I have been with championship teams, and…

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There are no short cuts. If you want to do something special, there's a serious price to pay. There's no way around it.

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I never look at a clock. When the work's done, the work's done.

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Passing and defense are two things that help build your team, brings the best out of people.

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When you look at what a coach does, it is leadership, it is communication, it is teaching, it is motivation. It really comes down…

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You can have a great season, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're great. To be great you have to do it year after year…

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The teams that win consistently, they put the work into it and they don't skip steps.

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You have to have core values. What do you believe in? Do you believe in hard work? Do you believe in discipline? Do you…

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I think I experienced it during the '90s that there's no better place to be than Madison Square Garden.

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We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East.

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I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

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There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100%

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I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.

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I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing…

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It's not how big you are, it's how big you play

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Basketball isn't just a sport to me ; it's my ecstasy !

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It's similar to basketball: when you go to different gyms and win or lose, you learn something new. So when kids get out of…

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If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach…

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And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is…

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Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas…

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Practice to beat the best.

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