Quotes from Dwane Casey

I'm not a very materialistic person.

I tried to listen to way too many voices in my first stint as a head coach. The second time around, I know what I want and how I want to do it.

I go to bat with people that are loyal to me.

I remember going with my grandmother to the houses she cleaned when I was little, and I would have to stay down in the basement while she cleaned, and then we walked back home together.

To me, 60 isn't old. It's a blessing to have my health. I still feel like I'm in my 30s or 40s.

It wasn't until I went to college that I started getting interested in style. Then I got jobs that started to pay a bit more money and was able to afford some nice slacks and suits.

You can't surprise LeBron any more. He's such a smart player. His intellect has caught up with his athletic ability.

You always take rest over rust in the playoffs.

A team like Brooklyn has seen everything, they've experienced everything, they've had every atmosphere you can have in the playoffs and some of them have won championships. That's the advantage you have as an experienced team and the disadvantage you have as a young team.

There's nothing that can teach you about the playoffs besides going through it.

I have a favorite poem. From Rudyard Kipling. It's called 'L'Envoi.'

I'm quite sure there are other things that I could have done in life whether it's working for Humana, teaching in college, high school teacher. Coaching stuck.

I have confidence in my manhood to be able to cry at a movie or at a wedding, too.

It's very difficult to overtly do it. But I try to live my life consistently as a man and as a father.

Freedom of movement, which is a great rule, doesn't mean freedom to go to the rim for a layup or freedom to take any shot you want to take or me going in there and not playing through contact.

I'm a firm believer in young, old, tall, short, doesn't matter. Basketball is basketball. It's the way you approach it.

Fred VanVleet's story - here's a kid who's not very fast, not very tall, undrafted, had every excuse to not make it big and here he is and he's gonna be one of the top free agents.

Fifty-four years ago, I was an 8-year-old boy living in rural Kentucky when the schools were desegregated. I walked into a white school where I was not wanted nor welcomed.

Watching a guy go from not having ever played an NBA game before to growing up and developing into an All-Star player, that's probably the most rewarding thing that you can do as a coach.

Now you've been in the playoffs once, you know what it tastes like, you know what it feels like. You know, going through the season when Coach is preaching physicality, how hard you gotta play, how you gotta take care of the ball, why he's saying that. Because all that comes into play in playoff basketball.

My grandparents taught me about hard work, about fear of failure.

I understand the outrage because it seems the list continues to grow: Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd. The injustices continue to mount and nothing seems to be changing.

The consistency of the game calls, I've been on both sides of it. I've been where the whistle has been in favor of you.

To go from the middle to the top is one of the most difficult things you can do in sports.