Doc Rivers Quotes

• Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth

  Doc Rivers

  Basketball, Sports, Truth

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• If you want to go quickly, go by yourself - if you want to go farther, go in a group.

  Doc Rivers

  Groups, Want, Ifs

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• Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have.

  Doc Rivers

  Team, Likes, Tough

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• How competitive can you be without losing your discipline?

  Doc Rivers

  Basketball, Nba, Discipline

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• Sometimes you will hate me because I will tell you the truth about your game. And the truth can hurt/humble you

  Doc Rivers

  Basketball, Hurt, Hate

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• If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

  Doc Rivers

  Basketball, Talking, Nba

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• I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots

  Doc Rivers

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• If you're a great defensive player, you're a great defensive player 100% of the time. You can't be a great defensive player half of the time because you didn't get the ball once or twice. That can't sidetrack you. It's got to be 'I live for my defense, and my offense I'll get. But I can't let it affect my defense. Nothing affects my defense.'

  Doc Rivers

  Player, Defense, Balls

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• Encourage 'random' picks on the ball because they cannot be scouted

  Doc Rivers

  Basketball, Nba, Balls

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• Winning is like deodorant - it comes up and a lot of things don't stink.

  Doc Rivers

  Basketball, Winning, Deodorant

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• Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do

  Doc Rivers

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.

  Doc Rivers

  Basketball, Sports, Team

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• I think the biggest statement we can make as men, not as black men, as men, is to stick together and show how strong we are as a group. Not splinter. Not walk. It's easy to protest. The protest will be in our play.

  Doc Rivers

  Strong, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I just think a guy that knows how to play when you put him on a good team, he can be really good.

  Doc Rivers

  Team, Thinking, Play

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• (Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

  Doc Rivers

  Player, Oklahoma, Nba

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• You only have a number for one day. After that, it is all up to you

  Doc Rivers

  Numbers, One Day, Up To You

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• I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team.
  When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart.

  Doc Rivers

  Team, Nba, Together

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