I probably would have no capability of absorbing a 60-defeat season as a coach. It would be a foreign experience. My whole career, even as a player, has been on winning basketball clubs and it just seems to have been a part of the make-up of what’s been given me. That’s what I’ve been given and that’s what I’ve had to deal with. Some people can make fun of it or some people can have a good time with it, or some people can resent it. It’s just what it is.

I always tell the players, "We are in the business that's very much like a marathon race only we're gonna be doing it for 260-something days or so." And the race is something you get ready to do. There's gonna be some trial inside of there, but you put yourself through it because ultimately it brings a lot of meaning to your life, it gives a lot of energy to what you're doing.

My job as a coach was to make something meaningful out of one of the most mundane activities on the planet: playing pro basketball.

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

Make your work your play and your play your work.

Remember, Team, surrender the me for the we.

A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.