Quotes by Chris Mullin - Page 2

I feel good about the four years I coached at St. John's. It's a special place to me. My kids go there. I met my wife there.
Chris Mullin /
Feel Good
Good Wife Me
Good Me Wife
Coached
Special Place
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I'm not one of those one-man-gang type of players. I'm a guy who has to rely on his teammates, to play within the team structure.
Chris Mullin /
Rely
Teammates
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You practice, you prepare, just go out, and let it flow. Just go play ball. You have to go out there and play loose and play free.
Chris Mullin /
Flow
Practice
Ball
Loose
Prepare
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The people I've been around who've been successful - be it players, executives, coaches - there's no substitute for a hard day's work.
Chris Mullin /
Coaches
Executives
Work Day People
Substitute
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The basketball experience that I have, you can use in different areas, but coaching itself, you have to go out there and learn on the fly.
Chris Mullin /
Different Areas
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If you asked a baseball pitcher from the '50s what a middle reliever was, he'd laugh at you. In the '50s, everyone pitched complete games.
Chris Mullin /
Pitcher
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I don't envy these kids these days. Between Instagram and Twitter... the easiest thing is just take your phone off the hook, and you're good.
Chris Mullin /
Envy
Hook
Easiest
Easiest Thing
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The biggest difference between college and pros is a lot more games and better competition day in, day out. You don't really have any nights off.
Chris Mullin /
Biggest Difference
Nights
Pros
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I've always found myself watching the NBA game more, even when I was coaching college. So I'll probably gravitate toward doing something in the NBA.
Chris Mullin /
Nba
Gravitate
Toward
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I would say this: no matter what style you play, at some point, the team that beats you, people are going to say, 'I guess your style doesn't work.'
Chris Mullin /
Beats
Work Your People
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I think everyone would like to have that one guy who gets triple-teamed, and he throws it to an open guy, but there aren't many of those guys around.
Chris Mullin /
Throws
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When you play injured, you're still judged like you're 100 percent. You know you can't do all you want to, but you want to get back to help your teammates.
Chris Mullin /
Injured
Judged
Teammates
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I would have liked to play in New York and be close to my family and friends, but since there is nothing I can do about it, I really don't care where I go.
Chris Mullin /
Family And Friends
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I have read that I was a Bill Bradley type. I wish I was a Bradley. He was one of the best. He helped his team win two championships, and that's the ultimate.
Chris Mullin /
Championships
Team Win
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In the recovery world, it's a higher power that helps you. You have to turn your life over to something greater. Anytime I tried to control my life, I had screwed it up.
Chris Mullin /
Higher Power
Recovery
Life Power World
Anytime
Screwed
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One thing that we can do for each other is support each other. At one point or another, we all go through trials and tribulations, so giving your time is one way to help.
Chris Mullin /
Trials
Tribulations
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My game hasn't changed too much. I'm doing the same things as I did in college, except I'm outside more. It's tough to go inside in the pros because the players are bigger.
Chris Mullin /
Pros
Same Things
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I don't really differentiate from big-time college basketball to any other kind of basketball. It's basketball. It's fundamentals and defense and shooting - they're all the same.
Chris Mullin /
Defense
Differentiate
Fundamentals
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If you're going to preach dedication, work ethic, teamwork, unselfishness, and being part of a team to accomplish a common goal, you have to live it - you can't just talk about it.
Chris Mullin /
Work
Accomplish
Common
Common Goal
Dedication
Goal
Team
Unselfishness
Work Ethic
Talk
Being
Part
Ethic
Preach
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I am forever grateful to St. John's for giving me the opportunity to hear Carnesecca Arena and Madison Square Garden roar again for college basketball and especially for our players.
Chris Mullin /
Arena
Basketball
Forever
Garden
Grateful
Madison
Opportunity I Am Me
Opportunity Me I Am
John
Roar
Square
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When you have the smaller guards - whether it be 6 feet, 6-2, 6-1, or under - they're the most energetic, and they set the pace, whether it be shoot-around, practice, and in the game.
Chris Mullin /
Energetic
Feet
Pace
Practice
Guards
Smaller
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The thing about the NBA, if you have a weakness, they are going to expose it on the first day of practice. You have to get rid of your weaknesses, and your strengths have to be as sharp as anything.
Chris Mullin /
Nba
Weakness
Your Day Practice
Expose
Rid
Sharp
Strengths
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I've played a long time and had success in a lot of areas. The one thing that eludes a lot of us is a championship. The teams that get there have guys willing to make adjustments, to sacrifice. I'm willing.
Chris Mullin /
Adjustment
Championship
Sacrifice
Success Time Long
Eludes
The One Thing
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I'd much rather have guys play with each other, have the ball moving, less dribbling, more passing, aggressive and decisive. I don't want guys looking over at me to call plays; I want them out there playing.
Chris Mullin /
Aggressive
Passing
Decisive
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When I reach the line, I just know I'm going to dribble the ball twice, and when I shoot, I know it's going in. I get there and relax. I've put more in than I have missed, so in my head, I know they're going in.
Chris Mullin /
Dribble
Relax
Twice
Ball
Head
Shoot
Line
Put
Missed
Reach
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A lot of things have happened that I wish I could have just walked away from. But you wind up saying, 'This is what it is - how does it get better, or how does it affect you, or how can you influence it in a positive way?'
Chris Mullin /
Wind
Affect
Positive Way
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As for my speed, I'm not the fastest, but just like in other sports, you learn to stay away from your weaknesses and make more use of your strengths: my shooting ability, court awareness, rebounding, and helping out defensively.
Chris Mullin /
Speed
Defensively
Fastest
Strengths
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What you do is build your team around your core. Some teams have one main guy - not many, but some do - and you build around that. If you have a bunch of good players, that's another way to go about it - through depth, teamwork, defense, and fundamentals.
Chris Mullin /
Another Way
Defense
Depth
Fundamentals
Teamwork
Good Your Way
Good Way Your
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Everybody's dream is to win a championship, but not everyone gets that chance. The only thing you can do is make sure you don't look back and have to wonder whether you did everything you could have done. I know I'll be able to look back and feel I had a good, honest career.
Chris Mullin /
Championship
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For a while, I loved everything about it, every single aspect of what was supposed to be a job. The training - I loved to train. I loved the traveling. I dug being in the locker room. I didn't mind icing and heat. I dug it. It was like, 'Cool. I'd rather do this than anything.'
Chris Mullin /
Heat
Icing
Locker Room
Dug
Locker
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