Doc Rivers Quotes

#1. Doc Rivers been hoarse since birth

Jamie Foxx

#2. Winning is like deodorant - it comes up and a lot of things don't stink.

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#3. I think the biggest statement we can make as men, not as black men, as men, is to stick together and show how strong we are as a group. Not splinter. Not walk. It's easy to protest. The protest will be in our play.

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#4. I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots

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#5. You only have a number for one day. After that, it is all up to you

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#6. I love Courtney Lee. He's a very good player. I know that sounds very simple, but it's true. He does things well. He's a good defender, a great team defender, and he shoots the ball very well.

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#7. How competitive can you be without losing your discipline?

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#8. In the long run, the power of kindness can redeem beyond the power of force to destroy. There is a vast reservoir of kindness that we can no longer afford do disregard.

John MacAulay

#9. You're always growing as a coach, and I am not done growing, and hopefully I'm not done winning.

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#10. In pure innocent love, there is no longer present contradictions.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#11. We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

Neville Chamberlain

#12. Sometimes you will hate me because I will tell you the truth about your game. And the truth can hurt/humble you

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#13. This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.

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#14. Good players want to be coached ... Great players want to be told the truth

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#15. I just think a guy that knows how to play when you put him on a good team, he can be really good,

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#16. Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is the best of all things in the life of man, if it is all one with wisdom and virtue.

Arturo Toscanini

#17. Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do

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#18. As a coach, you've got to do what's best for the team. If guys don't like it, they're going to leave. If they stay and don't like it, well, your team's going to suck anyway. Even if this happens, you still have to do it. You can't coach worrying about any individual.

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#19. I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team.
When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart.

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#20. Never underestimate the heart of a champion!

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#21. If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

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#22. From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.

Juvenal

#23. I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

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#24. If you want to go quickly, go by yourself - if you want to go farther, go in a group.

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#25. The thing a player has to ask himself: 'Do you want to choose winning over standing out?' Dwyane Wade made that choice, and I don't think he gets enough credit.

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#26. There's people that focus on the game and forget about the art. There's that specific special individual that can do both.

Conor McGregor

#27. By some accounts, humans are dwarfed and shown to be trivial on the cosmic scale. By some accounts, humans are reduced and shown to be nothing but electronic molecules in motion on the atomic scale. But by equally impressive accounts, humans live at the center of complexity.

Paul Davies

#28. Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have, and I understand that as much as anyone.

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#29. I have no interest in doing anything other than good work.

Andrea Riseborough

#30. I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. They get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way.

Arthur Lydiard

#31. Encourage 'random' picks on the ball because they cannot be scouted

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#32. You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.

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#33. I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.

BeBe Winans

#34. (Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

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