Best Popovich Quotes

#1. The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.

Gregg Popovich

#2. We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually

Gregg Popovich

#3. We would have two less championships here if it was not for Manu Ginobili. In my eyes, he's the stud of the world.

Gregg Popovich

#4. Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.

Roger L'Estrange

#5. Timmy, he's the beginning of it. He doesn't have to be the end all the time now.

Gregg Popovich

#6. But the talk of dialogue involves the work of knowing, acknowledging the other, of shaping speech toward him, for her. It is neither done or done well until it has been well received by that particular hearer.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#7. They won't choose Joakim Noah as the MVP, but I think it's great that he's in the conversation and he should be. But it's just not the way it works, from my experience. It's got to go in the basket for you guys to pay attention to somebody. But he's pretty damn valuable in my opinion.

Gregg Popovich

#8. Nothing. I was confused for two years. I didn't understand anything and I'm still confused.

Gregg Popovich

#9. It's never been my goal to be king of the prom. It's been my goal to do the right thing and get the job done.

Gregg Popovich

#10. Stop by stop by stop. Play aggressively. Sprint back on 'D' and pay attention to how we're supposed to guard as a team

Gregg Popovich

#11. Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.

John Brunner

#12. How do we handle adversity? Adversity is going to be with us in everything that we do, almost in every facet of our lives-in our personal associations, in the mission field, in our chosen professions, in our families.

LaVell Edwards

#13. I'm pleased that they performed as well as they did while we've been in Miami and that's about as far as it goes. Now, we've got to go home and play as well or better.

Gregg Popovich

#14. You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.

Gregg Popovich

#15. Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.

James Russell Lowell

#16. This is still the age of grace. God's offer of forgiveness and a new life still stands. However, the door will one day be closed. Someday it will be too late. This is why the Bible continually warns and challenges: "Now is the accepted time" [2 Corinthians 6:2 NKJV].

Billy Graham

#17. I asked them if it wasn't too much trouble, if I wasn't being too pushy, if they could execute what we were trying to do. And if it didn't make them too angry, if they also wanted to play some defense on the other end, that would be great.

Gregg Popovich

#18. Now I see
we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us.

David Henry Hwang

#19. I'm not one to blow smoke at my players. They kicked our butts on the offensive boards. And it's not just because the ball came their way.

Gregg Popovich

#20. I've never seen a better coach than Gregg Popovich

Jerry West

#21. I can't make every decision for you. I don't have 14 timeouts. You guys got to get together and talk

Gregg Popovich

#22. I don't have to," replies the philosopher. "I only have to outrun you.")

Matt Ridley

#23. 'Play the right way' means play unselfishly, respect each other's achievements, play hard, fulfill your role

Gregg Popovich

#24. I don't think we'll shoot 76 percent in a half ever again. That's crazy.

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#25. Basketball is a pretty simple game. What wins is consistency and competitiveness.

Gregg Popovich

#26. A reporter started off: "I know a lot of this is kind of speculation." Popovich interupting: "You're going to ask me anyway." Reporter: "And you're going to shoot it down." Popovich replied: "Next question."

Gregg Popovich

#27. In Phil's case, I was personally thrilled he came back, because I think it's huge for the league. When you think about what he's done and how many championships he's won, there's always drama when he comes back in.

Gregg Popovich

#28. It's not about any one person. You've got to get over yourself and realize that it takes a group to get this thing done

Gregg Popovich