Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning Jeff Van Gundy More Quotes by Jeff Van Gundy More Quotes From Jeff Van Gundy If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to! Jeff Van Gundy blockplayersports Your best players have to unite and inspire the group... otherwise, they'll divide the group Jeff Van Gundy nbabasketballplayer My dad told me this a long time ago, never worry about what your next job is, just worry about what you are doing right then. As I grow older, I couldn't agree more with that advice. Sometimes you get so worried about what's next that you fail to appreciate what you have. Jeff Van Gundy appreciatedadlong Players with high character get better. Players with a serious approach get better. The fools never get better Jeff Van Gundy basketballplayercharacter Sometimes I look like I was under interrogation. Some people just don't look good in clothes. In New York, Armani and all those clothing people used to call me up and tried to pay me not to wear their clothes. This is as good as it's going to get...and then it's all downhill. I'll be fine. I never feel as bad as I look. Jeff Van Gundy clothesnew-yorkpeople The best teams play for each other, not with each other Jeff Van Gundy nbateambasketball Your decisions reveal your priorities Jeff Van Gundy nbaprioritiesbasketball Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique Jeff Van Gundy nbabasketballdecision Don't worry about being cool. Worry about being the best Jeff Van Gundy nbabasketballworry When you know better and you don't do better, you're no better Jeff Van Gundy knows How forthright does the audience want the broadcasters to be? Because when you tell your truth, there's a lot of anger that comes out. I think it's a good question to ask TV people [executives] too. How much truth do they want to be told? How much truth does the league want told? Because the truth isn't just a positive truth. If you're going to tell the truth, you would be telling a lot of positive and some negative. Jeff Van Gundy leaguepeoplethinking Just concentrate on what you're supposed to do Jeff Van Gundy nbabasketball I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble Jeff Van Gundy basketballplayerthinking You need your best players to play their best when their best is needed Jeff Van Gundy nbabasketballplayer I quit the Knicks so I know what quitting is, I did. I quit. And it's something I regret to this day. I live with it every day and I regret it. And I let my emotions come into it. And I was just emotionally spent. I made a bad decision and I quit. Jeff Van Gundy regretemotiondecision I would pay to watch Ginobili play. Jeff Van Gundy playpaywatches I just don't think Cleveland has the firepower to win shootuts, so it's going to have to be grind-it-out games where the tempo is controlled and to do that you have got to have smart, tough guys on the floor. Jeff Van Gundy sports It will be interesting to see how competitive LeBron James can make this Finals, but any game they get in this Finals would be a huge upset, this is the biggest difference that I remember between two teams heading into the Finals in my time in the NBA. I can't think of a bigger gap from a team perspective. Jeff Van Gundy sports Obviously James is going to have to be great... and they are going to have to be lights out from the three-point line to have a chance to win a game. Jeff Van Gundy sports To be successful in anything, you have to have a passion for it, and that leads to being enthusiastic and demanding. I didn't have it for history. So I wouldn't have been a good teacher in that area. But I had it for basketball. And that's what coaching is at every level: it's about teaching. Jeff Van Gundy goodgood-teacherteacherhistory
