Doug Collins Quotes

We've got to get our fans back. We've got to start winning and get our fans excited about the 76ers again... We're selling hope. This is about hope. We have hope that we have a chance to be good.

This is the Boston Celtics. This isn't the Phoenix Suns. No disrespect to any other organization, but you don't hang conference titles. Do we hang going to the conference finals?

The Lakers have always been on the forefront and anywhere LeBron has been, has been on the forefront.

Nobody wants to play for a team that's not competitive.

Stats don't matter. I care about winning, not stats. If I score 0 points and we win I'm happy. If I score 50, 60 points, break the records, and we lose, I'm pissed off. 'Cause I knew I did something wrong. I'll have a hell of a season if I win the championship and average 20 points a game.

Do I want to play for a contending team? Yeah. Do I want to go to the playoffs? Yeah. Do I want to win a ring? Of course I do.

Most important for me is to fight the best, where the fight means something and fans want it, people want to see it.

I've traveled enough around the world with the NBA to see how much it's grown, globally.

We're going to have a moment. It's coming: just that breakthrough that's going to give us a cool factor, and more people will want to be a part of it. Because that, to me, is the only thing we're lacking - that social thing: 'It's cool to go to a WNBA game.'

I grew up watching Kobe and all these other dudes, but I was in love with that Oklahoma City Thunder team with James Harden, Russell Westbrook, and Kevin Durant.

You can be one of the best players, stats-wise, but if you're not winning, all that stuff doesn't matter.

The single most important thing that sports fans want is competition building to a meaningful championship.

Fans want their emotions to come to the surface. How? By their team transmitting intensity, attacking, scoring goals, competing, winning. That awakens them.

What's great is what Coach Popovich and R.C. Buford and the whole family have done a great job in continuing to build the franchise and still be very, very competitive.

If we win every game, that's all I care about.

I actually got an invite from the 87ers, the D-League affiliate for the 76ers.

I loved the expectation that every year we were going to the Super Bowl.

The Knicks are a special team.

It was larger than life - the 76ers, Dr. J, Moses Malone, Mo Cheeks, Andrew Toney and Bobby Jones - those were the teams that I grew up following.

Honestly, for me, when the Pacers win a championship, I'll feel a little bit better.

We want to beat the best team in the world.

The Lakers are really the biggest team in the world. Everybody knows the Lakers.

I just want to play for a competitive team that will offer me the best possible opportunity to win titles.

In NBA anything is possible.

I expected to be a pretty good NBA point guard and hopefully win a championship. But MVP and all this stuff? Not really.