DOC RIVERS

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have.

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

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.

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