When you get punched, you have to get up.You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.

You can have great players, but if they dont want to be coached, what are you going to do?

There are 30 great jobs in the NBA, and I've got one of them.

I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it.

I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.

When you don't have much and you need to be at work, there's no such thing as being sick.

We had a great preseason. The guys responded with what coach (George Karl) wanted early on in pace of the game, togetherness and defensive intensity. We've improved in those areas with a couple of setbacks, but we've improved each game.