Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Don Nelson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American coach Don Nelson.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Don Nelson

Donald Arvid Nelson is an American former professional basketball player and head coach. Nelson is second all-time in regular season wins of any coach in NBA history, with 1,335. He coached the Milwaukee Bucks, the New York Knicks, the Dallas Mavericks, and the Golden State Warriors. After an All-American career at the University of Iowa, Nelson won five NBA championships playing with the Boston Celtics, with his number 19 retired by the franchise in 1978.

Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight.
When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.
I can't remember any regrets, to be honest with you. — © Don Nelson
I can't remember any regrets, to be honest with you.
If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We're capable of doing that.
I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great.
I'm not a water guy.
You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.
I love Maui.
Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.
I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it.
I'm a running coach and I am going to continue to run, but I would hope that we are better defensively.
I’m a running coach and I am going to continue to run, but I would hope that we are better defensively.
If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential.
I'm the most unracist person around.
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