Billy Donovan Quotes

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Billy Donovan

Profession : Coach

Birth : May 30, 1965

We're all chasing something in life and that's regardless of what we do for a living. I think what you have to look at is what is the chase molding in you?

Billy Donovan

The history, the organization, what the Bulls have meant to the game of basketball and basketball worldwide, I mean, it's an iconic franchise.

Billy Donovan

A guy like Al Horford, I really mean this, if we run a lot of different things, if we do a lot of different things, he could tell me everybody's responsibility from the point guard all the way to the power forward spot. With a young player, that's very, very rare.

Billy Donovan

Too often we all got caught up in who is going to go pro on a certain team.

Billy Donovan

I'm excited about learning and growing. That's really, really important to me.

Billy Donovan

I'm curious to learn and grow.

Billy Donovan

I feel very strongly about the game of basketball and what I'll be able to learn and how quickly I'll be able to learn it.

Billy Donovan

Sometimes in a coaching situation, you end up making an instinctive gut call at the spur of the moment of what you feel is the best thing at that time, but I'm a big believer of the analytics.

Billy Donovan

The hardest position to go from high school to college and college to the NBA is playing the point guard position. Because you're running the team. You're making decisions. You've got to communicate.

Billy Donovan

I do believe the more and more involved I get the one thing that resonates is that culture wins. That's not to say that one culture is right and one culture is wrong, but I think that's what wins.

Billy Donovan

Every player is not going to have the chance to do everything that they want to do. But how do you mesh all of those guys together to get the whole to be better than the sum of the parts as a team? That would be my philosophy.

Billy Donovan

For me, there's an incredible power with a group of people that are connected in what they're doing. I feel like my job, my role, my responsibility - whether it be during the season or in the offseason - is to try and create those connections.

Billy Donovan

I had to earn respect.

Billy Donovan

No one is going to play perfect all the time.

Billy Donovan

I've always felt as a coach that the best thing for the game in our country is to have a universal way it's played.

Billy Donovan

I certainly believe in fast breaking on missed shots. I believe in getting down the floor because the most effective shot in the game besides layups and free throws is transition points.

Billy Donovan

I think as young players, when you have experienced losing, it can beat you down.

Billy Donovan

From an offensive standpoint, because a lot of times your personnel can change - whether it's through graduation in high school and college, or whether it's through different changes in the NBA - I think you've got to locate and figure out what each guy's strengths and talents are.

Billy Donovan

I think sometimes when you look at Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook it's so easy to see them as these iconic, unbelievably talented basketball players, which they are. But they're also human beings, too.

Billy Donovan

I think any coach-player relationship, there's always going to be some level or form of disagreement, or maybe not always seeing things the same way.

Billy Donovan