A biography for David Leehasn’t been written yet.
“The thing I want to continue to improve on is my defense. I've shown at times that I'm capable of doing a good job on big-time players.”
“I feel a lot better being over-prepared than under-prepared.”
“The most difficult thing about the NBA is consistency. It's easy to have a couple of good games.”
“I've been on teams in the preseason where you're just begging guys to play hard.”
“Faith has become a much bigger part of my life.”
“In New York, you're only as good as your last game.”
“Of course I want to play more. Everybody does. That's the combativeness you have to have.”
“Anybody can go out and have a couple good games. But to produce game in and game out is the most difficult thing in this league. I feel like I've done that.”
“I don't look back with any negative thoughts on my career in New York. I wish we could have won more games.”
“I'd been a guy who's made last-second shots in regular-season games or played big down the stretch for periods of times, but until you're in that experience on the grandest stage possible, you hope you're mentally prepared for it and able to produce but never really know until you get there.”
“I'm very confident in my own abilities.”
“You could play 10 good games in a row and then you have one bad game and that's what people remember.”
“There have been doubters all along the way that I've proven wrong.”
“Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations.”
“I'm going to play harder than the guy going against me, that's how I've always felt. That's the way I go out and try to play every game.”
“I would not have been capable of doing that early in my career. Putting my ego in my back pocket and saying let's do this for the team.”
“Coaching and playing in New York is different than any city. You see it in baseball - superstars play for the Yankees either thrive or shy away from the situation.”
“When you can protect your home court, that's one of the biggest things about making the playoffs.”
“I'm just a small-time guy.”
“My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart's Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. In those days, vacuum tubes were the active components in electronic circuits. I can still recall the warm orange glow of the vacuum tube filaments and the cool blue glow of the thyratron tubes.”