Masai Ujiri Quotes

History is not only the record of the past, but also the discipline of investigating and interpreting the past. The study of history develops habits of critical thinking and effective writing, as well as cultivates the careful analysis of various types of quantitative and qualitative evidence.

As coaches, we learn to accept criticism for our decisions. If a writer says you shouldn't have gone for it on fourth-and-one, we understand that's part of the job. We expect it.

I think I learned how it works in the league. When you are outside you don't understand everything, but when you are inside you can know how it works.

I've studied the game in every different aspect that I can.

Every matchup is very important regardless of who the bigs are, who the guards are.

As an NFL analyst, my job was to watch countless hours of game film and critique NFL coaches and that's what I've been doing the last 10 years. And there are coaches that I question in the NFL, and at other big collegiate institutions.

For as long as I remember, big men have dominated the NBA.

Analytics, math, science has gone into a lot of different areas of the NBA.

It's weird watching games and being apart from it but seeing teams that could use you in certain situations. You see where you could help different clubs in different ways.

I watch and learn from old Clipper games.

A lot of coaches might yank you after the first couple shots don't go in.

Every day is different. There's always, as we call it in the NBA, a 'drama,' a team's drama, there's always something.

I think there are much bigger differences between players in this league than between coaches. There is a big gap between LeBron James and the small forward for whoever. Far bigger than between two coaches.

Everybody in New York thinks the Knicks are Playboy bunnies, and I have been telling them for years the Knicks are a rabbit. They're closer to a Playboy bunny this year but for the last few years these guys are like, 'We have a really good team!' And I say, 'You really think that?' And I say, 'No, they don't.' But this is the best team they've had in a while.

It's hard to get up for a good high-school team like the Chicago Bulls.

Every coach has their own philosophy for getting the best out of players, and sometimes these can seem strange to the public.

I've learned to really appreciate the courtside position and the art of picking up certain subtleties. Player expression you can't see from a camera angle, or the booth.

You cannot buy players and know, for sure, that they can deliver. You cannot know because football is a team sport.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious - even with new players. You can't, say, sell him, get a new one.

Basketball is definitely basketball and that's what we love to play, but in the NBA, there's a business side of it. It's a very serious matter and it's important. It's important to me, it's important to my family.

I've been in football a long time now and I've seen plenty of managers and players come and go. It is part and parcel of the game.

When I started my professional rugby career, in 2002, there was one guy filming training if you were lucky.

After a certain point I know my players so well, I can anticipate their reactions.

If my teammates are out there to hoop, I'm going. I see the way these guys prepare for games. How can you not want to go be a part of that?

We knew the European players that went to the NBA and had great careers, and we knew the ones that went and had terrible careers or finished early. We were prepared for a lot of criticism.