Top 24 Quotes & Sayings by Doc Rivers

You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

I love Courtney Lee. He's a very good player. I know that sounds very simple, but it's true. He does things well. He's a good defender, a great team defender, and he shoots the ball very well.

Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have, and I understand that as much as anyone.

As a coach, you've got to do what's best for the team. If guys don't like it, they're going to leave. If they stay and don't like it, well, your team's going to suck anyway. Even if this happens, you still have to do it. You can't coach worrying about any individual.

The thing a player has to ask himself: 'Do you want to choose winning over standing out?' Dwyane Wade made that choice, and I don't think he gets enough credit.

You're always growing as a coach, and I am not done growing, and hopefully I'm not done winning.

How competitive can you be without losing your discipline?

Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do

Sometimes you will hate me because I will tell you the truth about your game. And the truth can hurt/humble you

If you want to go quickly, go by yourself - if you want to go farther, go in a group.

Winning is like deodorant - it comes up and a lot of things don't stink.

I just think a guy that knows how to play when you put him on a good team, he can be really good.

I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots

Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have.

You only have a number for one day. After that, it is all up to you

If you're a great defensive player, you're a great defensive player 100% of the time. You can't be a great defensive player half of the time because you didn't get the ball once or twice. That can't sidetrack you. It's got to be 'I live for my defense, and my offense I'll get. But I can't let it affect my defense. Nothing affects my defense.'

I think the biggest statement we can make as men, not as black men, as men, is to stick together and show how strong we are as a group. Not splinter. Not walk. It's easy to protest. The protest will be in our play.

(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.

If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

Encourage 'random' picks on the ball because they cannot be scouted

I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team. When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart.