Sometimes a player can look like a million bucks on tape, but in real life, the kid can't play a lick.
— Chris Mullin
I guess I get the most notoriety from my shooting. But I like passing and movement, making the game easy.
I just try to enjoy each day.
An opportunity to help a team to a championship would be very appealing.
Basketball's fun; it really is. Because I've done it all my life.
I don't know if people understand - losing is tough.
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.'
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.
My family's been coming to my games since I was in grade school.
To me, you have to take your schedule and just take things one game at a time.
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.
I think it's really important to have a vision of teamwork, team play, and unselfishness.
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.
The past four years at St. John's University have been one of the most thrilling and challenging points of my career.
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.
I always have a need to win.
The game changes when you play good defense and don't come up with the ball.
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.
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.
I learned that struggle was part of life.
It's important to have an imagination.
I like to take the floor apart mentally. I like to visualize an opponent going for you.
I grew up a Met fan.
If you don't get better, staying the same is probably not good enough.
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.
I poked Kenny Walker in the eye by accident. Every time I saw him, I used to apologize to him when I saw him in the NBA.
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.
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.
I'm proud to call the Bay Area my home.
I don't come in and break TVs when we lose.
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.
Obviously, cancer has affected my life, mostly everyone in the world in some level.
Jay Wright is class personified. He wins with class, loses with dignity when he does, which is not often.
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.
I'm not going to jump over or muscle people. That's the way I've always played, the only way I know.
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.
So many things in sports are out of your control, so I really don't look too far ahead.
I liked living with my brothers. It was cozy.
The very first time I went to Madison Square Garden, I went to see the circus.
New York - to me, it's the greatest city in the world, and it's got the most genuine people.
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.
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.
Spreading the wealth and giving other assistant coaches their due is critical.
When you're a general manager, you don't get to see every single player, so you have to rely on your scouts.
I think Isaiah Thomas has been a really nice player for the Kings.
I will always support St. John's University in keeping our basketball tradition alive!
I'm the only idiot the that decided to coach in my family.
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.
I belong to the Flatbush Avenue Fishing Club.
It doesn't matter how tall you are. You have to carve out space and hold your ground.
