Chuck Daly Quotations

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

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

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

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.

I do some broadcasting and speaking as well.

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

The two championship years were that significant for me.

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

I think in order to repeat, in will be an emotional ride and whether they can remain focused through a lengthy six weeks to the championship.

I'm still totally involved. I watch most of the games on TV, I've done some consulting work for a number of teams, so I get to stay close to it.

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.

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.

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

The first shot does not beat you.

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

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

The less determined and the less motivated weed themselves out.

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.

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

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.

It's hard to say. I would say they're at least the equal of last year. I think they're much, much deeper. I think they're capable offensively of doing some things that maybe last year's team wasn't. It's an intriguing team.