If you coach, and coach every day, you should be getting better if you’re self-evaluating and you’ve got people around you telling you the truth. Jeff Van Gundy Read Quote
I think the beautiful part about Yao is that his main legacy won’t be about the game. His legacy will be about helping people. His legacy will be taking on important world causes to better his world. Jeff Van Gundy Read Quote
I love Joe Ingles. I think Joe Ingles is a tremendous glue player, terrific shooter, passer, defender. Jeff Van Gundy Read Quote
There have been people who said I was a Pat Riley clone. But I don’t think that’s true. While I did learn a lot from him, I could never be him. I mean, we even dress so differently. Jeff Van Gundy Read Quote
To be successful in anything, you have to have a passion for it, and that leads to being enthusiastic and demanding. I didn’t have it for history. So I wouldn’t have been a good teacher in that area. But I had it for basketball. And that’s what coaching is at every level: it’s about teaching. Jeff Van Gundy Read Quote
At first, you can play into the naivete that people think you have because you don’t dress well. They almost give you the benefit of the doubt. But when success comes, that’s no longer a good angle, so now you’re ‘a political animal.’ Jeff Van Gundy Read Quote
I’ve had two owners – Jim Dolan and Les Alexander in Houston. Both were terrific. They wanted to win badly and gave you the resources to win. Jeff Van Gundy Read Quote
