I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

My philosophy is that you don't motivate players with speeches, you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in and those are the guys that are competitive. You can not teach competitiveness.

I told them it's the white uniforms they wear. They look like little elves and fairies playing basketball out there.

We're ....................on the path to trying to give the coach a heart attack on the bench. Either that or a stroke. When I make a sarcastic remark after New Jersey's game about 'Why should you guys be affected by losing close games? You're used to doing it now. Now show me you can do it again tomorrow, they went out and did it! Proved me exactly right.

We're just out here kind of treading water as a basketball team right now. We're neither hot nor cold, neither fish nor fowl ... We're not daunting as a team physically.

I'm disappointed we weren't 6-0, to be honest with you, We let one get away.

I don't see why they'll even go guard the other guys, they should all just go guard him. Put five against one.

I'm not doing a great job. I'm probably going to have to call more timeouts here at the end of the game.

We know that he is not a pussycat, that he is a big cat.