Everything can happen in the playoffs.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

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

You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches

I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.

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

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.