Doug Collins Quotations

I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship teams with Michael Jordan certainly had a great, great player.

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

I've always said you have to go through a lot of heartache in life to feel joy.

When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I'm proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination.

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

We've got to get our fans back. We've got to start winning and get our fans excited about the 76ers again... We're selling hope. This is about hope. We have hope that we have a chance to be good.

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.

We're talking about being relevant again. I want the Sixers to be on people's tongues again... I want the Sixers to be the basketball team that people want to see.

Boston is a very proud franchise. The NBA misses them when they are not in the mix. They, along with teams like the Knicks and 76ers are a big part of the heart, soul and history of the league.

I think that Paul Gasol is the most skilled big man in the NBA today with his ability to post on either block, the way he runs the floor, and the way he can shoot the mid-range jump shot.

I'm a numbers guy, and I think numbers sometimes tell stories and sometimes they don't. When you look at the NBA, when teams shoot 45% or better from the floor, what is their record? And if they shoot under that what is their record?

I remember when I went to try out for the Olympic team in 1972, Coach Iba told me he didn't care how many points I could score because if I couldn't guard anybody, I wasn't going to make the team. I knew to make the team I had to become a better defender. If you can play offense, you can defend. It just comes down to competitive will.

I think every time you coach a certain team, when you leave that franchise, I think you continue to grow. You take a look at the things that you did, the things you wish you had done better. You analyze your strengths and your weaknesses, and then when you move to your next job, you continue to do the same thing.

You don't want to be down 2-0 in a series. It's always important to try and get one on the opponent's home court. It makes your job at home easier.

A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.

As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I've never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That's what basketball has done for me. It's given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting.

The 76ers hold a special place in my heart and I am intrigued by the opportunity to return to Philadelphia, where I was part of a rebuilding program, joining the team the year after it went 9-73 and going to the NBA Finals just four years later.

We believe that Jerry has been attacked because of his work as a union official and we are committed to do everything we can to get him reinstated.

We're looking to what level of partnership we can get, and what a partner wants from us in exchange.

Since Olive Branch is one of the fastest growing communities in Mississippi and Prudential Collins-Maury was ready to expand, it was a natural fit.

It gave us some motivation going into the sectional.

That comes down to veteran leadership. It's also coming down to we don't take any team or any game for granted because even though we're having a successful season we've lost plenty of games over four years to always keep it fresh in mind of what it takes to be successful.

I was trying to crowd them and keeping them from shooting the 3 because they are a decent 3-point shooting team. Sometimes we were overplaying them and they were capitalizing, and getting to the basket. Early in the second half, our help defense was so-so, but give them credit they did a good job. They were very aggressive.

Michael is a genius as a basketball player. What he went through physically last year makes him more aware of what he has to do. ... He knows we can?t do the same thing this year.

We capitalized on a few rebound opportunities, fast breaks and transition buckets. It came at the right moment.

We didn't have a letdown. It was just one of those games that we just weren't on.

Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.

The great thing about basketball is you work as hard as you can to individually get better so that your team can win

To change a team you must change their comfort zone.

Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win

When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is

Aside from an intervention, which I don't think is on anybody's mind, Iraq is going to have defend for itself.

Everywhere we go, the running community has just embraced this as something Reno has needed for a long time. Marathon runners, for the most part, if they wanted to run a course on roads, had to leave this area.

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This Miami team has a long way to go if they want to get back to the Eastern Conference finals.

I've got to stand further and further back. It's too intense,

I live in Phoenix, so I get to see him play a lot. I love guys with great energy, and Shawn just works himself into good games every night.

He's much more agile and has more bounce in his step than I've seen in awhile. So I think that bodes well for them going into the playoffs.

These are emotional games when it comes to City.