Van Gundy Quotes & Sayings

If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to! — Jeff Van Gundy

If you defend, rebound and limit turnovers, you're going to put yourself in a position where you can win games — Stan Van Gundy

Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique — Jeff Van Gundy

The best teams play for each other, not with each other — Jeff Van Gundy

Just concentrate on what you're supposed to do — Jeff Van Gundy

I quit the Knicks so I know what quitting is, I did. I quit. And it's something I regret to this day. I live with it every day and I regret it. And I let my emotions come into it. And I was just emotionally spent. I made a bad decision and I quit. — Jeff Van Gundy

Don't worry about being cool. Worry about being the best — Jeff Van Gundy

Your decisions reveal your priorities — Jeff Van Gundy

Players with high character get better. Players with a serious approach get better. The fools never get better — Jeff Van Gundy

When you know better and you don't do better, you're no better — Jeff Van Gundy

Jeff Bzdelik is one of the smartest, most knowledgeable, hardest working coaches I have ever worked with. His teams in the NBA and college have achieved beyond their talent levels. Recruits to Wake Forest will play for a coach who was successful in the NBA for a long time and will teach them what they need to know to make it to the NBA. — Stan Van Gundy

How forthright does the audience want the broadcasters to be? Because when you tell your truth, there's a lot of anger that comes out. I think it's a good question to ask TV people [executives] too. How much truth do they want to be told? How much truth does the league want told? Because the truth isn't just a positive truth. If you're going to tell the truth, you would be telling a lot of positive and some negative. — Jeff Van Gundy

What I find fascinating ... you have to give David Stern and the NBA a lot of credit ... ESPN pays the league, and then the league tells them what to do. It's more ESPN's problem. You gotta have no balls whatsoever to pay someone hundreds of millions of dollars and let them run your business. — Stan Van Gundy

Sometimes I look like I was under interrogation. Some people just don't look good in clothes. In New York, Armani and all those clothing people used to call me up and tried to pay me not to wear their clothes. This is as good as it's going to get ... and then it's all downhill. I'll be fine. I never feel as bad as I look. — Jeff Van Gundy

Your best players have to unite and inspire the group ... otherwise, they'll divide the group — Jeff Van Gundy

I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble — Jeff Van Gundy

Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning — Jeff Van Gundy

Believe me, it's always a lot harder on the guy getting fired. — Stan Van Gundy

I would pay to watch Ginobili play. — Jeff Van Gundy

You need your best players to play their best when their best is needed — Jeff Van Gundy