Doc Rivers Basketball Quotations

He's a great scorer every night. It's the other things that he's done for this team that just keeps giving us hope that . . . with the things that we can add, we can be a good basketball team in the near future.

Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth

How competitive can you be without losing your discipline?

Encourage 'random' picks on the ball because they cannot be scouted

Sometimes you will hate me because I will tell you the truth about your game. And the truth can hurt/humble you

I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots

Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do

If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

Winning is like deodorant - it comes up and a lot of things don't stink.

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.

Duncan deserves everything he gets, as far as I'm concerned. It's frustrating guarding Tim Duncan even if they think he's not getting the calls. He's a hell of a basketball player.

As a staff, you get to see how your guys handle playoff basketball, and I think it's easier to evaluate in playoff games what you need for the following year than it is in the 82-game regular season.

I do believe you have to build a core to become a good basketball team. We're starting to get a core of guys. It would be nice to staple some of the guys' pictures on the wall instead of using the velcro.