When you have the smaller guards - whether it be 6 feet, 6-2, 6-1, or under - they're the most energetic, and they set the pace, whether it be shoot-around, practice, and in the game.

The game changes when you play good defense and don't come up with the ball.

It doesn't matter how tall you are. You have to carve out space and hold your ground.

Jay Wright is class personified. He wins with class, loses with dignity when he does, which is not often.

I always have a need to win.

I belong to the Flatbush Avenue Fishing Club.

Obviously, cancer has affected my life, mostly everyone in the world in some level.

One thing that we can do for each other is support each other. At one point or another, we all go through trials and tribulations, so giving your time is one way to help.

I feel good about the four years I coached at St. John's. It's a special place to me. My kids go there. I met my wife there.

The past four years at St. John's University have been one of the most thrilling and challenging points of my career.

I'm the only idiot the that decided to coach in my family.

I don't come in and break TVs when we lose.

I don't really differentiate from big-time college basketball to any other kind of basketball. It's basketball. It's fundamentals and defense and shooting - they're all the same.

I will always support St. John's University in keeping our basketball tradition alive!

I'm proud to call the Bay Area my home.

I think Isaiah Thomas has been a really nice player for the Kings.

The basketball experience that I have, you can use in different areas, but coaching itself, you have to go out there and learn on the fly.

To me, you have to take your schedule and just take things one game at a time.

I poked Kenny Walker in the eye by accident. Every time I saw him, I used to apologize to him when I saw him in the NBA.

My family's been coming to my games since I was in grade school.

I don't envy these kids these days. Between Instagram and Twitter... the easiest thing is just take your phone off the hook, and you're good.

What you do is build your team around your core. Some teams have one main guy - not many, but some do - and you build around that. If you have a bunch of good players, that's another way to go about it - through depth, teamwork, defense, and fundamentals.

I think everyone would like to have that one guy who gets triple-teamed, and he throws it to an open guy, but there aren't many of those guys around.

If you don't get better, staying the same is probably not good enough.

I would say this: no matter what style you play, at some point, the team that beats you, people are going to say, 'I guess your style doesn't work.'

New York - to me, it's the greatest city in the world, and it's got the most genuine people.

I grew up a Met fan.

I don't know if people understand - losing is tough.

I like to take the floor apart mentally. I like to visualize an opponent going for you.

Basketball's fun; it really is. Because I've done it all my life.

I liked living with my brothers. It was cozy.

It's important to have an imagination.

An opportunity to help a team to a championship would be very appealing.

So many things in sports are out of your control, so I really don't look too far ahead.

I learned that struggle was part of life.

I just try to enjoy each day.

Everybody's dream is to win a championship, but not everyone gets that chance. The only thing you can do is make sure you don't look back and have to wonder whether you did everything you could have done. I know I'll be able to look back and feel I had a good, honest career.

I guess I get the most notoriety from my shooting. But I like passing and movement, making the game easy.

I'm not going to jump over or muscle people. That's the way I've always played, the only way I know.

When I reach the line, I just know I'm going to dribble the ball twice, and when I shoot, I know it's going in. I get there and relax. I've put more in than I have missed, so in my head, I know they're going in.

Sometimes a player can look like a million bucks on tape, but in real life, the kid can't play a lick.

I always hate to pre-judge people. I like to find out for myself.

I have made some bad decisions in my own life, and people were there for me.

I missed big free throws. I had terrible shooting nights. I had games where I had 13 turnovers.

If there's a good player in New York City, he needs to come to St. John's if he wants to play the best basketball.

I'm in control of my life.

It's pretty well documented that Coach Nelson has had a big impact on my life.

St. John's University has meant so much to me and my family.

I'd much rather have guys play with each other, have the ball moving, less dribbling, more passing, aggressive and decisive. I don't want guys looking over at me to call plays; I want them out there playing.

There's not a lot I haven't done, from being the No. 1 option to the No. 12 option.