Billy Donovan Quotes

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Billy Donovan

Profession : Coach

Birth : May 30, 1965

I've always tried to take the approach of how do we get better today? How do we maximize today?

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Zach LaVine is a guy that's got great offensive ability and can create his own shot.

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I really didn't know after leaving Oklahoma City what the future would hold.

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One thing I always love about coaching is that every season is totally different.

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I may come into the same office every day, but every day provides something new, and I find that to be great.

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If you want to be very, very good and continue to get better, there is no shortcut to that.

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I feel very blessed and fortunate that a lot of times in jobs it can be the same old mundane thing. It's not that way in coaching.

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If you have a shot and someone's got a better one, move the ball.

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A lot of times when you probably come into the NBA as a younger player, you're gonna probably build your habits based on your veteran guys.

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What you don't want to be is a team that analytically can't win. What I mean by that if you've got teams taking a lot of threes and maybe you're not taking as many.

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You just want to make sure your formula analytically going against teams that are maybe high volume three-point shooting teams is not putting yourself at a deficit.

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The greatest things I learned from Coach Pitino were personal accountability and taking responsibility, dreaming big and the importance of self-esteem and putting time in.

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I was very fortunate growing up because I always felt I was dealt with directly and honestly. A lot of those things I was hit with directly were very humbling, very hurtful. But it was the truth and forced me to take personal accountability instead of trying to deflect blame.

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I put in enormous time in the gym. I was not going to look back with regret that I should have worked a little harder, listened a little more. When my playing days ended, I never had a regret walking away because I knew I got everything I possibly could out of myself.

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There's always going to be something about coming back to New York because I'm from New York. It takes me back to my childhood.

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There's always a time and a place that, with certain guys, elite players offensively, you're going to iso them, put them in situations.

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I have never been a big believer in payback.

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I always felt from an NBA perspective, just because of the amount of time coaches spend on the game, they're a lot further along than college coaches in terms of the nuances.

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