Tom Thibodeau

“I think in Boston we had three great players in Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen.”

“If you're guarded, you drive the ball or move the ball and make a quick decision, and help someone else.”

“I know what New York is like when the Knicks are successful and there is nothing comparable.”

“You run the floor. Kick the ball out, repost, keep moving around, search it out, get to the offensive board. You've got to sprint around. You learn when teams are double-teaming you - that's what you have to do. You have to make the right play.”

“I think game-time is important. So if a young player is not getting the appropriate amount of time to develop, we'll utilize the G-League. That's become an important part of our league.”

“I think that when you sort of look at what's gone on where players are familiar with each other - it starts in high school with AAU. When they get to the pros there's All-Star Games, they share agents and then there's Team U.S.A. stuff. They build relationships.”

“You are only wrong if you don't communicate.”

“For me it's always been about being true to yourself.”

“One guy being off is going to hurt you. So you need everyone working together.”

“There's no magic formula where you're going to get everything done in one day. I think it's about establishing and building the right habits to be successful.”

“'Throw the losses away.' The family mantra.”

“There's no shortcuts to winning. You have to be willing to pay the price and be willing to sacrifice.”

“When you look at what a coach does, it is leadership, it is communication, it is teaching, it is motivation. It really comes down to those four things.”

“I think the big thing is you look at your team, and you always think about ways that you can improve.”

“I actually grew up a Knick fan - my dad was a Knick fan.”

“I think the important thing for me is to just be able to have a voice.”

“You have to believe - to me, the only way a team can improve is you have to be sharp.”

“Whether you're talking about the 70s Knicks or the 90s Knicks, the championship-caliber teams, it all starts with your defense, your rebounding, your willingness to play for each other.”

“I think the important thing is to lock into what you have to do each and every day, put everything you have into it, and then you let the results speak for themselves.”

“The physical toughness is the obvious - the ability to push through things no matter what's coming at you, to keep going, to not give in. Never surrender. Usually the victory goes to the guy who can play through it the longest. Of course, the mental part is equally important.”