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D'Antoni can be successful playing slow or fast because he is a bright guy who has very creative ideas.
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If you are going to call out your teammates, you have to call out yourself, too. You can't just separate yourself from the rest, because if you are going to get 90 percent of the credit when you win, you have to be willing to take 90 percent of the blame when you lose.
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The best player's responsibility is to unite and inspire your teammates to play up to their full maximum ability, and that never occurs if you try to separate yourself as part of the problem.
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When I'd watch myself coaching, I'd say, 'Man, I look bad,' but I never felt I didn't have a sense of humor with the team. Maybe I was too over-the-top serious.
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Kobe Bryant is a terrific offensive rebounder.
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At first, you can play into the naivete that people think you have because you don't dress well. They almost give you the benefit of the doubt. But when success comes, that's no longer a good angle, so now you're 'a political animal.'
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I want to control everything that goes into winning or losing.
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Losing has an unbelievably negative impact on me.
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I read somewhere that failure is an event, not a person, but I never feel that way. It's who I am.
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Mark Fox is always criticized recruiting: he can't keep the Georgia kids home. What that means - he's not cheating and paying. That's what it means.
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Dwight Howard is a Hall of Fame player.
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Most elite big men are high maintenance.
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There's always been conflict, inherent conflict between players and coaches.
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I always said 'strength in stars.'
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Chicken parm is hard to beat.
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I love listening to Coach Belichick's press conferences: even though they may not be what the media wants, they're great coaching, teaching tools.
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You would never find a coach in any sport more giving of his time than Coach Parcells to other New York coaches.
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It's hard to change a roster around. You've got to hit your draft picks right, you've gotta hit free agency right, and a team's got to fit together.
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I think greatness is always good for the NBA. Great players, great teams - it's always good for the NBA.
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When Jordan was averaging over 30 and shooting over 50 percent, he was doing it with less shooting on the floor for himself. He had less spacing to work with. He was going against defenses that were allowed a lot more liberties as far as physical contact, how hard they fouled, and all those things.
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Often, organizations don't know how good they have it with a player or coach.
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The NBA is a crazy place.
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I never lost the desire to coach.
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I've had two owners - Jim Dolan and Les Alexander in Houston. Both were terrific. They wanted to win badly and gave you the resources to win.
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For professional athletes, I always think about it in these terms: the most difficult diva of women's soccer would be the easiest NBA player ever.
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Sometimes you try to change, and you go backwards.
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When you have the best player, you can do a lot of things. The best player can usually back it up, too.
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The triangle itself is just an offense based on freedom of the ball to go to different places, everybody feeling involved. It's a good thing.
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I think anybody confusing a system with a reason for success is making a huge mistake. Systems don't win games. Players do.
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All you try to do in any system you incorporate is put players in their areas of strength and try to hide and minimize their weaknesses.
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Detroit Pistons basketball slogan: When the going gets tough, we fire the coach.
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It's staggering how many players, even with the sums of money they make, don't do a great job of saving it.
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It is a player's league until you lose.
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I think there are much bigger differences between players in this league than between coaches. There is a big gap between LeBron James and the small forward for whoever. Far bigger than between two coaches.
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I think coaches should get the same amount of credit in victory that they get in defeat.
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I broadcast games. I think there is a huge difference between print journalism and broadcasting. I don't have to say, 'sources close to LeBron James,' five times a game. I can just put my name to it. I say what I believe. It doesn't mean it's right. It's what I believe.
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I think fans oftentimes get an inferior product on back-to-back games, and I think that has to be the number one thing that gets addressed for the fans and for the players - the elimination or the drastic reduction of back-to-back games.
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Phil Jackson was a brilliant basketball coach, not just because of the offense that he employed, but it was so many other things that went into it.
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I think Jeff Hornacek is a very, very good basketball coach and an outstanding person.
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When you get a draft pick right, you should be given full credit.
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I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.
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My mom wasn't a movie star.
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One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.
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I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.
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Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.
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I never read reviews of something I want to see.
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The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.
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I'm kind of an idea guy.
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Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.
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I gotta take notes when things occur to me.
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