Jeff Van Gundy Quotes

• The best teams play for each other, not with each other

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Team, Nba

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• If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to!

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Sports, Block, Player

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• Your best players have to unite and inspire the group... otherwise, they'll divide the group

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Winning, Player

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• When you know better and you don't do better, you're no better

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Knows

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• Your decisions reveal your priorities

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Nba, Priorities

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• Players with high character get better. Players with a serious approach get better. The fools never get better

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Character, Player

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• Sometimes I look like I was under interrogation. Some people just don't look good in clothes. In New York, Armani and all those clothing people used to call me up and tried to pay me not to wear their clothes. This is as good as it's going to get...and then it's all downhill. I'll be fine. I never feel as bad as I look.

  Jeff Van Gundy

  New York, Clothes, People

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• Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Nba, Decision

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• My dad told me this a long time ago, never worry about what your next job is, just worry about what you are doing right then. As I grow older, I couldn't agree more with that advice. Sometimes you get so worried about what's next that you fail to appreciate what you have.

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Dad, Long, Appreciate

  Source: uproxx.com

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• Don't worry about being cool. Worry about being the best

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Nba, Worry

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• How forthright does the audience want the broadcasters to be? Because when you tell your truth, there's a lot of anger that comes out. I think it's a good question to ask TV people [executives] too. How much truth do they want to be told? How much truth does the league want told? Because the truth isn't just a positive truth. If you're going to tell the truth, you would be telling a lot of positive and some negative.

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Thinking, People, League

  "ESPN 2015 NBA Finals Media Call with Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson". Interview with Gianina Thompson, espnmediazone.com. June 1, 2015.

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• Just concentrate on what you're supposed to do

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Nba

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• You need your best players to play their best when their best is needed

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• I quit the Knicks so I know what quitting is, I did. I quit. And it's something I regret to this day. I live with it every day and I regret it. And I let my emotions come into it. And I was just emotionally spent. I made a bad decision and I quit.

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Regret, Decision, Emotion

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• I would pay to watch Ginobili play.

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Play, Watches, Pay

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• I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Thinking, Player

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