Billy Donovan famous quotes

If I can't expect someone to be accountable off the floor, how can I expect them to guard a pick and roll? Or get a rebound?
-- Billy Donovan

#Basketball #Rebound

False Hustle = cheap fouls, lunging, reaching, etc.
-- Billy Donovan

#Basketball #Coaching #Hustle

Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.
-- Billy Donovan

#Basketball #Believe #Winning

If you don't feel you have something to prove every day, you'll never improve
-- Billy Donovan

#Basketball #Feels #Prove

As players see themselves getting better through skill sessions, they will want to get in the gym more
-- Billy Donovan

#Basketball #Player #Skills

I have no problem with anyone storming the court. But storm the court after the opposing team has gone to the locker room. Once the opposing team is out of the area, put them all (the fans) on the court.
-- Billy Donovan

#Team #Storm #Fans

You can do one of two things: You can humble yourself or life will humble you. I think it's a lot easier to find a way to humble yourself.
-- Billy Donovan

#Humble #Thinking #Two

Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.

Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.

One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.

Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

God didn't miss any of us.

It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.

I want to see the economy rebound.

My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.

You have no chance at getting a rebound unless you make it.