The great thing about basketball is you work as hard as you can to individually get better so that your team can win

I remember when I went to try out for the Olympic team in 1972, Coach Iba told me he didn't care how many points I could score because if I couldn't guard anybody, I wasn't going to make the team. I knew to make the team I had to become a better defender. If you can play offense, you can defend. It just comes down to competitive will.

I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship teams with Michael Jordan certainly had a great, great player.

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

To change a team you must change their comfort zone.

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.