Chuck Daly Quotes

#1. Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special.

Tom Heinsohn

#2. If one of our players gets his second foul in the first half, then he must come out of the game and not re-enter until the second half. To play defense and not foul is an art that must be mastered if you are going to be successful.

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#3. To some degree. I know I couldn't do it anymore.

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#4. I told him something good.

Jojo Moyes

#5. When you kick others at their weak point, time is timing a painful kick at your strong point

Shubha Vilas

#6. A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.

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#7. There is a weird power in a spoken word.

Joseph Conrad

#8. I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.

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#9. Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

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#10. I wish that I could fly into the sky and touch the clouds with my hands.

Delano Johnson

#11. What's thought cannot be unthought.

L.M. Boston

#12. Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.

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#13. The less determined and the less motivated weed themselves out.

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#14. It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

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#15. If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work.

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#16. And I'm truly sorry about last night with Mr. Edwards." She sniffled. "Hang Mr. Edwards. After what he said yesterday, I've already added his to the lists of houses to be set ablaze.

Tarun Shanker

#17. There's nothing like being involved with a team that can go that distance.

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#18. Defense can't guard two things in a row.

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#19. I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring.

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#20. We work very, very hard to find that fine line where location is meaningful enough to be interesting to an advertiser but not so intrusive that it interrupts the creative flow of the show.

David Brenner

#21. Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.

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#22. I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players

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#23. Athletes that can't listen, can condition.

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#24. The two championship years were that significant for me.

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#25. If I could have wished what I thought was my perfect mate on the wind and had her come back to me in a storm, I could never have come up with anything as exquisite as you.

Kristen Ashley

#26. Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them

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#27. To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#28. Her father, captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humour which youth and beauty generally give, had married a woman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind had very early in their marriage put an end to all real affection for her.

Jane Austen

#29. The first shot does not beat you.

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#30. Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.

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#31. The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

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#32. I do some broadcasting and speaking as well.

Chuck Daly