David Blatt quotes

“It was an honor to coach him. He should be proud of what he did this year.”
-- David Blatt

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“He has become a great leader of his team, a guy that has evolved in terms of his role within the team.”
-- David Blatt

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“It's not like I'm a rookie pilot. In fact, I invented airplanes. And air.”
-- David Blatt

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“It was our third game in five days. It seemed to have an impact on us.”
-- David Blatt

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“I'm proud of everybody in our organization. Not every story has a happy ending. Doesn't mean it's a bad story.”
-- David Blatt

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“We were in the NBA Finals. Two games away from winning it. I think we did pretty well.”
-- David Blatt

Source : "Game Quotes: Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors - June 16". David Blatt during NBA Finals: Cavaliers v Warriors Press Conference, www.nba.com. Jun 17, 2015.

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“We just don't give in. If you can bend and not break, you always got a chance.”
-- David Blatt

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“We may bend sometimes, but we don't break. There's a lot of character in that room”
-- David Blatt

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“Basketball is a game of sacrificing yourself for the next guy, being a team that takes good shots, and taking the right shots”
-- David Blatt

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“'Stay with it' was our coach's motto. That's what we did. This is unreal!”

“Not even thinking about anything. My mind is a blank. We just want to enjoy the moment.”

“I want to be just like Steph when I grow up.”

“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

“We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.”

“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.”

“In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.”

Source : "The First World War". Book by A. J. P. Taylor , p. 165, 1963.

“In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.”

“We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.”

“Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses...”