I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.
We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds. . . It's still the greatest move I've ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.
If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.
The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.
Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.
To those who much has been given, much is expected.
But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.
We have the mentality of the hunter. We want to be the most enthusiastic team in the country. That's what we can control
I don't pay attention to what others are doing. I feel strongly that if I have correct goals and the determination to keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line.
I'll show you just how cruel a sport basketball is.
This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
I can see Sue and I leading this team to many more championships. . . We're going to take this and learn from it. We worked too hard for this.
In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face.
The team is the star, never an individual player.
This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.
I'm not the one buying love. He's the one buying love.
I painted my toenails before Dennis Rodman. One time at training camp, I stubbed my toe and the nail came loose. My mom gave me some toenail hardener, and I painted over it. I scored 40-something points that night, so it became a ritual. Paint my toenails, score 40 points.
Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country.
Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so thats why Im a basketball fanatic.
I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.