I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust.

I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.

Basketball is sharing.

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

Basketball is a great mystery. You can do everything right. You can have the perfect mix of talent and the best system of offense in the game. You can devise a foolproof defensive strategy and prepare your players for every possible eventuality. But if the players don’t have a sense of oneness as a group, your efforts won’t pay off. And the bond that unites a team can be so fragile, so elusive.

The best thing that I think happened to me was I got the opportunity to have really good players and we were able to meet the demand of the competition. And I think that's what I value most.

The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.