A biography for Billy Donovanhasn’t been written yet.
“For me personally, I loved Raymond Felton. I loved being around Raymond Felton.”
“Every human being on the face of the earth is yearning to be understood and have relationships.”
“I feel very blessed and fortunate that a lot of times in jobs it can be the same old mundane thing. It's not that way in coaching.”
“Sometimes in a coaching situation, you end up making an instinctive gut call at the spur of the moment of what you feel is the best thing at that time, but I'm a big believer of the analytics.”
“The challenge always is can we sustain a high level of competitiveness?”
“We all have feelings, we all have emotions.”
“I think as young players, when you have experienced losing, it can beat you down.”
“You try to get every little possible advantage you can. And sometimes for the officials, it's really really hard to officiate the games. I do respect the fact that the officials have a hard job to do.”
“I've always tried to take the approach of how do we get better today? How do we maximize today?”
“My feeling is you've got to have a base package of defense where you're playing your base package and the way you're guarding. Then certainly personnel dictates and changes the adjustments you need to make.”
“Everybody's journey is a little bit different.”
“If someone throws a life raft out there, you have to actually swim to it. You can't say bring it to me.”
“I can't tell you I was OK with getting dressed up in a cowboy outfit. When you're 20 years old it's kind of corny.”
“I think a lot of times for frontcourt players in the NBA, a lot of times guys are dominant because of their size and strength.”
“I coached Udonis Haslem for four years in college. And probably for a good portion of his college career, he was one of the most dominant low-post players in college basketball.”
“I feel very strongly about the game of basketball and what I'll be able to learn and how quickly I'll be able to learn it.”
“I've always felt as a coach that the best thing for the game in our country is to have a universal way it's played.”
“The greatest things I learned from Coach Pitino were personal accountability and taking responsibility, dreaming big and the importance of self-esteem and putting time in.”
“I've always believed offensively, year to year, you have to evolve.”
“One thing I always love about coaching is that every season is totally different.”