What 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 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 HeinsohnI think my broadcast partner Mike Gorman said it best. He said there's a generation of fans who know me as a player and there's a generation of fans who know me as a coach and now there's a generation of fans who think I'm Shrek!
Tom Heinsohn