Chuck Daly Basketball Quotations

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

Defense can't guard two things in a row.

Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

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

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

The first shot does not beat you.

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

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

Athletes that can't listen, can condition.

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.