Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Mike Budenholzer
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American coach Mike Budenholzer.
Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Being the youngest, my siblings took great care of me and pushed me in all the right directions.
There's an attention to detail that you learn in the video room that, I don't want to say you can't get anywhere else, but it's a huge part of their foundation.
I would have never ever dreamed of my career playing out the way it did.
I'm passionate about coaching.
Giannis is such a great player.
The great Chicago teams when Tex Winter and Phil Jackson were there - the triangle was just amazing. I know Michael Jordan was great, but everybody touched the ball, everybody cut, everybody moved. It was just so hard to guard.
There are so many pick and rolls in an NBA game. It's so hard to guard.
My dream was to be an assistant college coach, maybe a head coach, maybe at a Division III school.
If we're competing and we're doing the daily fundamental things that we talk about every day, then everything will sort itself out.
I think people know how we feel about the international game and the European game and how we can learn from each other.
You never want to put yourself in a position where you can bring negativity to yourself or the organization and your teammates.
Sometimes the things that are most successful are very, very simple.
I would love to be the best defensive team in the league.
Things happen. Things change. It's part of life.
To add a player in the draft is something we always look forward to.
It's not easy to go out and win and compete and play against the best teams, the best players in the league, and we take that very seriously.
For coaches, we always look for those examples of guys who put in a lot of time and effort during the summer and really work and it carries over for them to take their game to the next level.
The really great players, I think embrace playing unselfishly and embrace playing in a system that ultimately kind of lifts up their teammates or their role players and guys who are around them.
When you watch great teams around the league, whenever they lose, you don't want to be the team that comes and plays them next.
I love what my dad taught me and modeled for me - not just with coaching but as a husband, as a father, as a teacher, as someone in our community that cared and worked to make things better. I watched my dad and learned a lot about a lot of things, not just basketball.
My dad was a huge influence on me. He taught me how to play and a lot about the game. He was very passionate and intense. As I started coaching, he wanted to tell me about all of the presses and man-to-man coverages and big philosophical things.
If you're conscientious of where your team is, and the opportunities and what's available to them, I think you'd be naive - I don't think anyone would believe you - if you said that you weren't aware of it.
The dream or the goal was to play in college. That was exclusively my focus.
It is always the great challenge when you have a good team and you have good players and you find a way to keep those players with you, then how do you add around the edges?
I literally remember going in my backyard and my dad teaching me Paul Westphal moves.
Growing up in a small community where everybody knows everybody, it was a lot of fun. Great friends, great memories.
My mom, raising seven children, was such a steady and firm influence. You did not mess around with my mom. Nobody in the neighborhood or whole town did. She had that steadiness and firmness but love at the same time.
Those teams that really trust each other, really communicate with each other, really hold each other accountable and do it in a good way, in a respectful way, and just genuinely enjoy and like each other, I think that can be something that helps you separate when talent is equal.
Playing unselfish basketball is a core component of our basketball culture and high assist totals are a great indicator that we are playing the right way.
There's no doubt that having some guys on the bench that have been through things, and that are older and experienced, understand not just the highs but the lows of losing a game. Winning and keeping a steadiness throughout a game, their voice in timeouts, it's really valuable.
I think that coming to work every day and what we try and do and accomplish, there's a seriousness to it.
We talk a lot about having high-character guys and high-IQ guys, and I think that's one of the characteristics of those types of people or players that if and when something doesn't go their way, their reaction usually is to come back and fight harder, dig deeper, do more.
Getting swept is hard.
On a lot of teams that bottom guy, that weakside defender, is critical if something happens and you're broken down off the dribble or you're beat. That person has got to be there.
The health and well-being of our players are a critical component of our ability to succeed.
We should be shooting 3s whether we're 1-for-14 or 10-for-14.
Every team has to work through things.
Any time your season ends it eats at you.
John Collins has been a great offensive rebounder since jump street.
If you have the right kind of guys who are pushing each other and at the same time supporting each other, it's pretty cool.
It's a tough job to be the owner in a rebuild, to be the GM, to be the coach. These are tough jobs.
Point guards love it when a guy can pick and pop and make a shot and make threes.
It's just hard in our league to see somebody who has had that much sucess, that's done that well, that's that well-respected, not just among coaches but the whole basketball world has great respect for David Blatt. That's hard anytime you see a coach go when they make a change.
A lot of times continuity is your best hope for taking that next step. Can you have a balance of continuity and some additions and bolster it and walk that fine line of adding and embracing continuity?
My father, he's meant so much to me. He's always on me to be thankful and humble to everyone who's helped me and helped the team be successful. There were many things that he said and preached throughout my life that are now part of my mindset. It's a big part of who I am.
The only social rule you recognized in high school was that Mormon girls don't date non-Mormons.
I'm very appreciative of Atlanta. I love living here. I love coaching here.
Any player that values winning, success would be great in a system that emphasizes unselfishness and ball movement and player movement.
Lots of coaches like to draw up a play in a timeout and most, if not all of them, are drawn up against man-to-man type coverages and defenses.
Each of us can play a role in eradicating hunger in our communities, and together with Feeding Wisconsin we look forward to raising awareness and having a positive impact on the work to help this important cause.
I'm going to get better as a coach. Or at least I certainly hope to and plan to and need to work to, and have that as my mindset.
We have so much respect for European basketball.
I love coaching.
When you make that transition to being a head coach, there's so much more you have to think of and consider. You're constantly thinking, 'How does this impact our culture? How does this impact us two, three steps down the road?' It's thinking big picture, and all of those things come with time. It's a great challenge.
That's the great thing for coaches... we'll find more things where we can get better.
It's part of, I guess, one of the harder parts about coaching is you have to make some tough decisions.
I remember as a really young child, watching his energy on the sideline and watching him get excited, his body movement, the way he reacted. It's fun to hear other people tell stories about my dad and the things he did in games and the way he'd get upset with officials.
Not winning and those types of things are difficult. There is no doubt. You can't say they are not.
I can tell you, those video guys are truly trained to see the spacing, the timing, how offenses progress, what are teams doing defensively.
I think individually, Al Horford is very special, very unique. He's a guy that can kind of be the backbone of the defense.
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