Anybody that shoots a hook shot, whatever hand, I jump up and cheer because it's the easiest shot, it's the best tweener shot.
Tom HeinsohnI try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.
Tom HeinsohnChuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special.
Tom HeinsohnWhat I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.
Tom HeinsohnTalk radio around Boston is brutal, and I think that's part of what goes on is that people as they're driving to and from work start listening to these jerks, and I say jerks, because I don't think they know what they're talking about and they're just serving some things up as controversy so they can sell the show to sponsors.
Tom Heinsohn