I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole.

Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.

The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.

I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Anybody who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses...so what?

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

I never had a set of rules. Every situation is different.

And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start a team today, the greatest player and the one guy I would take would be Larry Bird.