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Basketball's a game of mistakes.
I try not to get impressed. I just try to look at what I see.
I don't think we'll shoot 76 percent in a half ever again. That's crazy.
The older you get the more you try to appreciate what you've accomplished.
The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.
Timmy, he's the beginning of it. He doesn't have to be the end all the time now.
Basketball is a pretty simple game. What wins is consistency and competitiveness.
I'm not too interested in talking about the past. It doesn't do us any good whatsoever.
Nothing. I was confused for two years. I didn't understand anything and I'm still confused.
We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually
I can't make every decision for you. I don't have 14 timeouts. You guys got to get together and talk
'Play the right way' means play unselfishly, respect each other's achievements, play hard, fulfill your role
It's never been my goal to be king of the prom. It's been my goal to do the right thing and get the job done.
I don't pick and choose what LeBron should talk about any more than any talking heads who try to pick and choose.
We would have two less championships here if it was not for Manu Ginobili. In my eyes, he's the stud of the world.
Stop by stop by stop. Play aggressively. Sprint back on 'D' and pay attention to how we're supposed to guard as a team
It's not about any one person. You've got to get over yourself and realize that it takes a group to get this thing done
No one is bigger than the team. If you can't do things our way, you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are
If you were born white, you automatically have a monstrous advantage educationally, economically, culturally, and within the society.
You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.
I'm not one to blow smoke at my players. They kicked our butts on the offensive boards. And it's not just because the ball came their way.
I'm pleased that they performed as well as they did while we've been in Miami and that's about as far as it goes. Now, we've got to go home and play as well or better.
A reporter started off: "I know a lot of this is kind of speculation." Popovich interupting: "You're going to ask me anyway." Reporter: "And you're going to shoot it down." Popovich replied: "Next question."
In Phil's case, I was personally thrilled he came back, because I think it's huge for the league. When you think about what he's done and how many championships he's won, there's always drama when he comes back in.
I asked them if it wasn't too much trouble, if I wasn't being too pushy, if they could execute what we were trying to do. And if it didn't make them too angry, if they also wanted to play some defense on the other end, that would be great.
Sometimes, when life moves along, you're presented with situations where you find it necessary to speak because so many people either seem to be afraid to or, more sinister, are unwilling to face things and let things go and worry about their own situations.
They won't choose Joakim Noah as the MVP, but I think it's great that he's in the conversation and he should be. But it's just not the way it works, from my experience. It's got to go in the basket for you guys to pay attention to somebody. But he's pretty damn valuable in my opinion.
If you read some of the recent literature, there is no such thing as whiteness. But we made it up. Not my original thought, but it's true. Because you were born white, you have advantages systemically, culturally, psychology there. They have been built up for hundreds of years. Many people can't look at it.
We changed our rules. If a player does not have some sot of altercation on or off the court once each month, we fine him...The guys that are our top four scorers, each of them will be required once every two months to appear on MTV. The guys who shoot the worst free throws over a one-month period, next time we have a TV game they're required to look into the camera and beat their chests after they make a good play.