Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win

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

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

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.

To change a team you must change their comfort zone.

A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.

Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.