Rajon Rondo Quotes

When you are speaking to your team after a game, never talk about the kid who was the star of the game. Talk about what your other players did to help the team win. Be sure to spread the wealth... Then have individual meetings with one to three players to praise and reinforce. Make sure you touch them.

When we play a team I know we're going to blow out or anything like that, I'm not as motivated.

If great teams don't have an "enemy," they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, "you can't have a war without one."

It's about us getting ready to play. It's not about the other team. We'll beat ourselves before they beat us. That's always our approach.

I've been watching basketball for a long time, I'm a historian of the game. I don't know any other team that's gotten to the Finals without two All-Stars... I cannot remember thinking of it. I don't even know if it's ever happened, for a team to lose two All-Stars and still be able to make it to the Finals.

Leaders have to search for the heart on a team, because the person who has it can bring out the best in everybody else.

The greatest ally you have to get things working well and the players performing as a team is the bench. Don't be afraid to use it, either for the star player or anyone else.

We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are.

Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions

I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win.

Someone in the England team will have to grab the ball by the horns.

A leader has to show the face his team needs to see.

A team can't work when a guy puts himself in front of a team. I have yet to be on a team like that.

I don't know any other other team that got to the finals without two all stars.

I won't coach this team next year if he is still here. He won't listen to anyone. I've had it with this kid.

The best teams are team in any sport that lose themselves in the team. The individuals lose their identity. And their identities come about as a result of being in the team first.

Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must step into the vacuum and drive the beat that sustains the team.

You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

You just gotta be who you are, and I think it's time to get rid of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call 'em gangs.

I consider myself a leader of this football team, along with a lot of other guys.

The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it.

Baseball is a set of individuals doing their thing in the same team, but it's much more individual. In basketball people are making real time decisions about who gets the ball, do we trust everybody out on the court, and the analytics certainly don't show you all those subtle dynamics, but they're very important.