The real value in everything you do is in the details.

Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.

I'm not railing, 'This is inadequate' or 'This isn't right.' Just show me what will work.

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.

Pau is one of the best big men in the game. I mean, Pau Gasol is going to be in the Hall of Fame.

In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.

Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must step into the vacuum and drive the beat that sustains the team.