A biography for Larry Brownhasn’t been written yet.
“I think it's an unbelievable responsibility to our sport, coaching in New York, because the fans are probably the most knowledgeable, or as knowledgeable as any team in the League.”
“Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.”
“College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.”
“As long as I feel like I'm helping kids get better, I don't see why I should stop.”
“I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.”
“I don't know why you play a team sport and not be concerned about making your teammates better and helping your team win games. That's the only thing that really matters, and if you're the best player, surely you're going to have some effect on the game's outcome.”
“One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.”
“If you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.”
“You look at the NBA: there's all these young kids that are drafted on potential. They go to bad teams, they're in bad locker rooms, and now we got this analytics stuff that doesn't teach kids how to play. We've got these workout coaches that don't teach kids how to play basketball.”
“Leading the SMU men's basketball program is an honor and a responsibility that I take very seriously.”
“I want to be like Johnny Bach or Pete Carril or Tex.”
“I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don't let your kids play.”
“You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.”
“When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.”
“You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.”
“I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.”
“When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.”
“I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.”
“I've been coaching how many years? A long time.”
“I want to coach because I love it. I don't want to sound hokey, but when you play for Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, and Pete Newell - they taught me a lot - I want to share what they taught me with a lot of people. I don't want to stop doing this.”