Dwane Casey Quotes

I talked to Grant Hill, and I told him, 'I played against you a lot, and now, hopefully, I'm getting to coach a player like you. Jabari has the opportunity to be a special player in this league. But it's not handed to you. He's going to work, and our jobs are to make him better each day.'

As a player, you look where I've come from, averaging 'X' amount of points, to where I am now, an All-Star.

Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.

A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.

The opportunity to coach Kerry Kittles I wouldn't give up for anything.

I just want to take the time to think about what I've achieved in my career so far, where I need to go, and what I need to do to get better as a player.

The best success, for me, is not one trophy. It's not harmony. It's when players improve and grow.

I've been lucky to have great coaching, great teammates, and a desire to keep getting better. That, slowly over time, helped me grow from an average high school player to the NBA.

I always want all my players to improve and do even better.

Giannis is truly a student of the game. He listens to the coaches, they show him film, and he's always in the gym working on his game and trying to find ways to get better.

I think every game in the NBA, I'm a lot better than I was before just by learning a lot.

I went to Kentucky to be a better player.

I just want to keep getting better. People used to ask me - when I was winning in the D-League - why I wasn't in the NBA, and I'd tell them, 'I just want to learn and get better.' I figured it'd happen one day, and if it didn't, I really enjoyed my time coaching anyways.

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game.

Nobody thought I would be a great coach.

I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.

The reason I became a better player was because I came to Philly.

I loved going to the Knicks because we won the Atlantic Division championship. We went from winning 21 games or 19 games to winning 52 games in a short period of time. I loved coaching Patrick Ewing and Charles Oakley and all those guys.

I just really just try to get better as a player every week, just focusing on the team we have to play this week, and just trying to do whatever is best for the team that week.

He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.