Dwane Casey

“To me, 60 isn't old. It's a blessing to have my health. I still feel like I'm in my 30s or 40s.”

“Sean Sweeney is a defensive guy that did a great job with Milwaukee.”

“In the NBA, it's wins and losses. You don't have to deal with some of the hypocrisy of college athletics.”

“That really makes you feel good when guys are using some of your terminology and some of your plays in a different country.”

“I was making $19,000 a year, and I thought I was rich.”

“Growing up it was humble beginnings.”

“I think the basketball gods will get you every time if you start trying to mess with the game. You've got to take what the schedule gives you, or who the standings give you.”

“Black, white and brown people have to work together to find new answers. The only way we can stop the systemic problems that people of color have faced all our lives is through honesty and transparency.”

“The only way young players learn how to get better is by playing or get the experience is by playing and getting out there and doing it.”

“I've been blessed over the years and I want to help guys to feel good about themselves when they're going for job interviews. You walk in for a job interview, you feel good about yourself, you look the part, you get that confidence going.”

“It irks me when I read the narrative that 'Dwane is salty.' I can't say anything right.”

“I have confidence in my manhood to be able to cry at a movie or at a wedding, too.”

“I never want to hurt a player but being physical is different. Body to body.”

“In fact I only had one sports jacket when I was in high school. It was all sneakers and tees.”

“When I was coaching at Kentucky - I was a grad assistant and I just got through playing and we won the NCAA Championship in 1978, so I stayed after I got through playing - we had Japan's national team coach Mototaka Kohama come to Lexington to spend the year and study basketball. He and I became great friends, so we hung out together.”

“My grandfather Urey was my hero. He worked three jobs. He had a dry cleaner's factory job in the day and a dry cleaner's factory job at night and when that was done with that, he mopped floors in a restaurant.”

“It's very difficult to overtly do it. But I try to live my life consistently as a man and as a father.”

“You can't surprise LeBron any more. He's such a smart player. His intellect has caught up with his athletic ability.”

“A team like Brooklyn has seen everything, they've experienced everything, they've had every atmosphere you can have in the playoffs and some of them have won championships. That's the advantage you have as an experienced team and the disadvantage you have as a young team.”

“When I first got to Toronto, we were last in defense, 20-something in offense, we were the laughing stock in the Eastern Conference.”