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

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.

He has the players too happy.

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

Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of caring - fiercely caring

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.

The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.