Jeff Van Gundy Quotes

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Jeff Van Gundy

Profession : Coach

Birth : January 19, 1962

Chicken parm is hard to beat.

Jeff Van Gundy

Providence had a graduate assistant job opening. They asked me if I wanted to apply, and I applied. That break right there put me in position to learn from great coaches. It really jump-started every other good break I ever had in coaching.

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The triangle itself is just an offense based on freedom of the ball to go to different places, everybody feeling involved. It's a good thing.

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Every team has leadership. The leadership is the best players. But there's positive leadership, and there's negative leadership.

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Goaltending was brought in because of Mikan and Chamberlain. So rules do change for specific players, in concert with a need to stay up to date on how coaches are taking advantage of the rules.

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Are you playing for your teammates and coaches? That's how it should be.

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Life sort of works out the way it works out.

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I have known Marbury since he was in seventh grade, and I have always felt he is a hell of an NBA player.

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I think coaches should get the same amount of credit in victory that they get in defeat.

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I think there are much bigger differences between players in this league than between coaches. There is a big gap between LeBron James and the small forward for whoever. Far bigger than between two coaches.

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For professional athletes, I always think about it in these terms: the most difficult diva of women's soccer would be the easiest NBA player ever.

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I think anybody confusing a system with a reason for success is making a huge mistake. Systems don't win games. Players do.

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It's staggering how many players, even with the sums of money they make, don't do a great job of saving it.

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All the fascination with numbers conspires to make you forget the beauty of the game sometimes.

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Christmas Day is a big day for NBA basketball.

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When you have the best player, you can do a lot of things. The best player can usually back it up, too.

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It is a player's league until you lose.

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I frankly think the NBA All-Star game has run its course, the whole dunk contest... The game - if those guys actually played hard in that game, it'd be the best watch ever.

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It's hard enough to coach in this league when you're doing what you believe in. But when you have to try to coach something you may not be sold on, it becomes even more of a challenge. It's really hard.

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I love Joe Ingles. I think Joe Ingles is a tremendous glue player, terrific shooter, passer, defender.

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