J. B. Bickerstaff

You don't win without talent, but your talent has to have purpose.

It's always fun when you get to go somewhere new and you get to meet new people and get new experiences.

As a coach, the more experience you have, the more you're around players, it helps so you see how guys learn, ways that are effective to reach different people. You see the aftermath of all the things that happened; you don't just see what happens at the game, you see what happens after the game, the followthrough, and those types of things.

My dad traveled so much for work that, when he was home, we always wanted to spend as much time with him as we could, so going to practices and doing stuff like that with him took precedence over Saturday morning cartoons. We'd go to practice with my dad just so we could be a part of it.

Some guys, when they play with other elite players, they end up being too unselfish; or guys who are used to having the ball in their hands all the time, now they're not as aggressive or as instinctive because they're thinking too much out there.

Through the regular season, if you get really good at what you do, teams will have a hard time adjusting to you.

During the regular season, you don't have the sort of time you do in the playoffs to prepare for people, so you've got to go to your strengths.

Every day, you learn something. That's the same as assistant coach and the same as a head coach. You should continue to learn. You watch so much basketball, you should see something somewhere from somebody different all the time.

You go with what you got. That's the thing about having a system, then you plug guys into your system.

Grinding is a mindset and a willingness and commitment to work at it.

It's hard to argue with a coach who says, 'I just want you to work.' What can you say to that without making a fool of yourself?

No matter what your job is, you know that you need to have a routine, that you need to be disciplined, you need to work.