Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Monty Williams
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American coach Monty Williams.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
I want to continue to climb up the mountain of life and try to get everything that God has for me.
I know what it's like to have a No. 1 pick and having everybody picking at him all of the time.
I want to help guys get better. I want to help them get paid. I want to help them win games, but I want to do it in a way that allows for them to think, 'That guy cares about me. He cares about my family. He cares about me as a person.'
I think when people say stuff about you, you want to prove them wrong.
Growing up in colonial Virginia, if you know anything about that part of the country, there was a number of tensions there. Because of that, you heard the family members talk about Dr. King and many others who were not just speaking out, but sacrificing a ton so that our world, our country could be a better place.
Everything you want is on the other side of hard.
Just, sometimes your faith and your feelings don't line up.
When I came into the NBA, to be around Patrick Ewing and Derek Harper and Doc Rivers and Charles Oakley and Pat Riley and Jeff Van Gundy every day had a huge effect on me.
I learned a long time ago that you can't skip steps.
The way I've always approached every situation is to not get too far ahead of myself.
When you win a championship, you realize it takes a level of stamina that most people don't have.
Communication is huge and a lot of it is knowing what to say, and it takes time.
I pray for those we have lost but more personally for those who have lost - the families of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and so many before you. I know how it feels to get that call that someone you love isn't coming home.
Having already been a head coach and having been fired, you never want to be in a situation where you're not prepared.
When you've been quarantined so long and being in somewhat of a limited routine, it's good to have the gym to get back with your guys.
The essence of my coaching is to serve.
We have an institutional problem with pervasive racism.
We're not going to ride on Space Mountain and do the Disney thing. Forget Mickey. This is freaking 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator' stuff that we are trying to will onto other teams.
I have to be real with my kids. Life is precious. They know that. Yet, I have to remind them that they're blessed beyond what most people on the face of the Earth could imagine.
I'm a man who has failed in many areas, but the one thing I don't want to do is quit.
Your natural tendency, human nature, is to always look and see if there's an opportunity. But that's something that I don't spend a ton of time doing because I'm pretty meat and potatoes when it comes to approaching the day.
I've learned I would rather be effective over right.
Unfortunately, everything we do, somebody is going to have a cell phone. And you've got to be careful.
If I do have a strength, it probably is adaptability.
In our case, my children and I couldn't have made it through the tough times without the grace of God and the wonderful support we received from family and friends.
It's just life. You have to be able to get up, face your flaws, and just, whatever it is, a step, an inch, you just got to keep moving forward.
Every team goes through segments of the season where things get a bit loose, from time to time.
I get how you have to marinate your bigs. They take longer.
Just for me, my leadership revolves around serving people. It's the way I thought would be effective for my personality.
I know I've been blessed a lot to be in this position, and I never want to lose sight of that. So, sometimes it's overwhelming when I think about how blessed I've been to be able to do what I do for a living.
Sometimes in a huddle I don't say anything, the guys will run the huddle. But I try to be an encourager in huddles, especially when I see a guy down or the team is not at the level where they should be mentally.
Everybody's not 7-1, 335 and can dance.
It is time to raze the institutional foundations of racism and segregation within politics, law enforcement and society at large.
In life, and in basketball, if you lay the truth out there, people don't have to guess.
You can't play like that in any conference, where bigs just continually get offensive rebounds and get fouled and get to the free throw line.
Well, head space, mental stamina, all that stuff, like it boils down to getting it done.
Herb Williams was a guy that took me in and taught me how to eat, taught me how to take care of my body.
To be able to win on a Game 7 in The Finals, was a huge experience for me.
It doesn't have to be stats all the time. Go dominate the game with force.
I've been blessed to coach alongside and play for some of the best coaches in the NBA, and consider it a privilege to once again be a head coach with an excellent organization like the Suns.
It just comes from my faith as a Christian, to not just do a job, collect a check and go home.
After you've had some life experiences and listened to people about their evaluations of you, especially people that you respect, you have no choice but to change.
I hold the utmost respect and admiration for the coaches in this league, so to be recognized by my peers is an incredible honor.
It's a skill to navigate uncertainty.
You can either be a quitter, a camper or a climber. I don't want to quit, and I certainly don't want to camp.
I was so focused on winning and coaching; there were times players felt like I was really tough on them and hard on them. Now, I try to be more considerate with how I get my message across.
In this league, the truth helps guys out.
I'm distraught as I look at my boys - two are African American and one is Caucasian - because too many people see them differently. None of them should have to think about how law enforcement will treat them if pulled over for rolling through a stop sign.
I want to have something substantial to say or I'm just not going to say anything.
When I was in Portland, they started pushing me to do more media when they thought I was going to be a head coach.
The music before the game, they're playing old-school music and it's right above your locker room and you're like, 'These people are crazy, man. This is pretty cool.' I'm sure it has an effect, but after a few minutes, it's just basketball.
I was just trying to coach and that was the only thing I knew. Coach the team. I think for me, ten years later and a lot of life experiences later, I'm more aware of the partnership that has to take place.
The reality is we live in a world that's filled with stuff, but quitting is not an option.
A lot of guys talk like they want to do it, and they think it would be cool to be in a nice suit on the sidelines, but I'm not afraid in dealing with the success and failures that goes with being a head coach.
Everybody is beatable.
Life's not fair. Don't expect it to be.
I just try to be authentic and speak from the heart. Sometimes it requires me to shut up and not say anything.
Just because you have a lead in the series doesn't mean you can show up and they're going to give it to you.
We talk about touching our guys in a personal way, knowing that we all want to play basketball and coach basketball, but our guys are dealing with stuff and we want to make sure we are sensitive to that.
We have to approach every game with a level of desperation and we can't look at the series numbers.
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