Monty Williams Quotes

Monty Williams

Profession : Coach

Birth : October 8, 1971

I don't have any bitterness in my heart, man.

Monty Williams

It's a skill to navigate uncertainty.

Monty Williams

To some degree, it seems like around the country people are just living life like there is no virus. And that's scary.

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How can you stay in touch with what's going on if you don't read everything?

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I get vested in my guys. I want to know who their family members are, I want to know their interests, I want to know what makes them tick. I want them to also know I care about the other side of them, their personal character and growth as men, because I think we all sharpen each other that way.

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I learned a long time ago, it's my job to help guys in any area, whether it's on the court, off the court.

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I would like to be the kind of coach who gets text messages and phone calls from players years after I coach them, because we had something that is bigger than just being on the floor.

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There are so many things you can lose sight of as you try to win games and all the stuff we try to do every day.

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When everything happened to my family, my focus was just take care of my children. That led me to believe I might not ever be able to coach again, and I was cool with that.

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I have to enhance the strengths but be honest about our weaknesses and get the players to consider a new way of doing some things.

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A lot of young guys nowadays, when you start talking about guys wanting to get paid or what's best for them, they tend to think about themselves.

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Growing up in colonial Virginia, if you know anything about that part of the country, there was a number of tensions there. Because of that, you heard the family members talk about Dr. King and many others who were not just speaking out, but sacrificing a ton so that our world, our country could be a better place.

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I thought the playing time I was getting during the season was getting me ready for the playoffs. When it didn't happen and Coach Riley never told me why, I thought, 'Maybe I'm just being used as a pawn in the game.'

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Even though I've been diagnosed with a heart condition, I've had no symptoms and have been cleared to play by the National Institute of Health. The health issue was never a factor in contract negotiations.

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So many reporters ask a lot of crazy questions. The answers to most of these questions are so obvious, but they ask them anyway just to see what kind of reaction they can get out of you.

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Everyone playing in the NBA likes to have pressure. If you didn't like pressure, you wouldn't be playing.

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As soon as you lose one game, you're going to deal with the criticism.

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When I was in Portland, they started pushing me to do more media when they thought I was going to be a head coach.

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