I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.
The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.
The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.
I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.
I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.
I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.
I talked about my family, my family's so important.
People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.
Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.
We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.
I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.
Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.
Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.
If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.
Bad shooters are always open
Coaching is preparation.
Praise your kids. Inspire and motivate your players with praise. Ten years from now it won't matter what your record was. Will your kids love you or hate you?
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.
Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team. Keeping a player on the roster just because I liked him personally, or even because of his great contributions to the team in the past, when I felt some one else could do more for the team would be a disservice to the team's goals.
To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.
Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.
When you watch the game, be a student of the game.
The team is an extension of the coach.
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