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“If you're only focusing on yourself, then you're not going to help the team.”
“I want to do this for as long as I possibly can and coach as many different teams and opportunities and different kind of personalities. I want to gobble that all up. And I want to be able to give and add value to these teams.”
“By the time you get to the conference finals, you can't hide. It's not like your opponent is going to be experienced on how to try to exploit you. You have to have the right kind of habits and hopefully have been tested enough in those habits... to be able to still get to your identity.”
“My wife has now made a point of, after losses, to bring our son into the bed when he wakes up in the morning. So when I'm waking up and I'm still obsessing over whatever happened the night before, I see this little guy right in front of me smiling and wanting to connect with me. It's totally changed how I compartmentalize.”
“I'm a stay-in-the-present momentist.”
“If you want to win in a tough place, you're going to have to make tough plays, you're going to have to get stops.”
“The more that we've tried to think conventionally in terms of guys playing just a specific position, it restricted us a little bit.”
“I've always been a takeout, order-out guy.”
“Come on, if you lose, no one's going to be happy and nor should they be.”
“It is terrific to be involved with changing people's perceptions, and the world is changing.”
“You need guys that have been playoff-tested and have that experience.”
“I'm definitely not trying to go out of my way to create my own image or ensure my own imprint.”
“Jimmy Butler embodies those qualities just like the Heat players of our great past have done before. Alonzo Mourning, Chris Bosh, Udonis Haslem. He just embodies these qualities of professionalism, of work, of accountability, of being reliable. And he leads.”
“Anything can happen, and you have to be able to understand the reality of the world that we live in.”
“We've watched 'Beauty and the Beast' at least 30 to 35 times, 'Moana,' 'Despicable Me' - '1,' '2' and '3' - all of these multiple times.”
“The unified message in this fight against systemic racism and racial inequality is something that our entire Association is united to fight against.”
“Nothing is absolutely 100 percent guaranteed.”
“When you work for Pat Riley, you're not just putting your hands on the basket and hanging out during practice. He puts you in positions where you have to coach. You have to be enthusiastic and fierce with your preparation and work ethic.”
“Zones are easier just to throw out there and you don't have to really teach it.”
“Family keeps you very grounded.”