Top 45 Stan Van Gundy Quotes

I was raised in a home where we grew up where we discussed issues. I’ve always been really politically aware. My wife and four kids are very aware. They make me more attuned to a lot of things I would not think about. Especially women’s issues.

I’m sick of people who supported Trump saying, ‘Get over it. You lost.’ That’s not how America works. We get to critique him the same way they constantly fought Obama. As long as I have a platform, I will continue to speak up because it’s my responsibility.

I’ve been privileged to coach a lot of great people, high-character guys, and I don’t think I’ve ever coached a better professional than Joel Anthony.

The hardest thing to do in this league is to get a proven star. It’s just very hard to do. It’s hard to do in free agency; it’s hard to do in trades. You get very few opportunities to do it.

I support most charitable organizations.

Every coach in every sport, one of their larger concerns is the balance between work and rest. We all think about it all the time.

The league has been good to all of us in terms of what we get out of all these TV contracts and everything, so it would be a little disingenuous to complain too much. But if I had my way, we’d take a five-day break at Christmas. I mean it.

There are a lot of good coaches in this league, and there are a lot of good coaches out there.

I think, look, you have to be aware of the language, and you have to be aware a little bit of your own biases if you’re going to overcome them.

When ‘Sports Illustrated’ came out with their 50 most fashionable people in sport, that fact that I wasn’t on that list is a travesty.

While people can differ on the issues, no one should seek to discourage freedom of speech.

The best people make mistakes.

I’m pretty sure that every player who’s ever played for me doesn’t hate me. Now, we’d have to do a survey, but I’ve coached a lot of guys, and I’m pretty sure there’s one or two that don’t hate me. I don’t know that any liked me. But I’m pretty sure there’s one or two who don’t hate me.

I certainly would not call myself creative. There are other coaches who are innovative and everything else. I wouldn’t be that guy, that’s for sure.

Coaches are going to adapt to whatever the rules are. The rules certainly change strategy.

I actually feel sorry for people who have nothing to do on Christmas Day other than watch an NBA game.

As NBA coach, people get on you. But politics, maybe even more so at the local level, is nasty on a very personal level. I have a thick skin, but I don’t want to deal with it.

I don’t think anyone could be the next Dick Vitale. I mean that in a good way. More than an announcer, Dick is an ambassador for the game. Dick is in class by himself. Like what he does or not, what he has done to expand the popularity of college basketball is phenomenal.

My dad was a basketball coach, and so I went to his games. But baseball was the sport I could enjoy with him, whereas with basketball, I wasn’t with him.

We’ve changed a lot of things to help certain groups of people. We widened the lane from 6 feet to 12 feet to 16 feet to make it so the big guys aren’t as dominant. Well, why didn’t we just say, ‘You’ve got to learn to play against them in the post?’

Tyrone Corbin is a class act.

I couldn’t throw, run, hit, or hit for power.

I’ve always believed that. I’m not a guy who comes in with an offensive system, and we try to fit guys to it. I think it goes the other way. ‘Here’s who we’ve got. Let’s put them in the right spots where they can be productive.’

My dad has coached a long time, so there aren’t too many conversations in my family that haven’t centered around basketball.

Tom Gores has been involved in the City of Detroit, not just the surrounding area.

Everybody tries to take a tragedy and turn it to their own political purposes, and it’s both sides.

I have been in a unique position to hear from players and staff members about the issues they and their families have had to encounter.

I think we get a little carried away with ourselves with sports thinking we’re more important than everything else.

People should never be permitted to feel comfortable while trampling the rights of others.

LeBron is LeBron. They’re not going to call offensive fouls on him. He gets to do what he wants.

At Wisconsin, I wasn’t working for people who believed in me.

The biggest thing I learned at Wisconsin was, it’s all who you work for, not where you work or what level.

Athletes have the same rights everybody else does. If there is a strength in our democracy, it’s that we are encouraged to exercise those rights and speak out and hold people in power in check.

Selling advertising on jerseys is preferable to keep jacking up prices on the fans.

The NCAA is one of the worst organizations – maybe the worst organization – in sports. They certainly don’t care about the athlete.

I think one of the most important things for a young player’s development is that they understand that they will play when they deserve the right to play.

Sometimes standing up for things that are right makes things tougher.

I really think the people I run into in the NBA, whether it’s the front office side or in coaching, everybody wants to work in an atmosphere where everybody’s pulling in the same direction.

If I ever feel a sense of anxiety, it’s usually over things that I have some control over, or I’m anxious about me making the right decision.

I do not claim to be an expert on race in America.

Sometimes expanding your game isn’t better. Sometimes shrinking your game is a little bit better and really get to the things you do well.

One of the things I’ve said to teams and players from time to time – especially when things are going well like we had them going in Orlando – is that you better appreciate it and enjoy it because things change quickly in this game. You know, it’s tough for guys to really think it will change on them, but it does.

Rondo’s a great player, and most teams look at it that anytime you have a chance to get a great player, you do it.

Holding people presumed to be innocent in jail pre-trial simply because they cannot afford to pay their bail extracts huge human and financial costs.

I’d get rid of it, just get rid of the draft altogether. We’d just deal with the salary cap.