Quotes from Dwane Casey

I've been blessed over the years and I want to help guys to feel good about themselves when they're going for job interviews. You walk in for a job interview, you feel good about yourself, you look the part, you get that confidence going.

In fact I only had one sports jacket when I was in high school. It was all sneakers and tees.

We don't want to keep talking about 'potential.' That word is the most dangerous word in professional sports.

The only way young players learn how to get better is by playing or get the experience is by playing and getting out there and doing it.

To be honored by your peers is incredibly gratifying and I am so thankful to my colleagues across the league for this recognition. I'm also grateful to the talented and dedicated coaching staff I work with every day in Toronto. To be recognized with an award that bears Michael H. Goldberg's name is very special.

I think the basketball gods will get you every time if you start trying to mess with the game. You've got to take what the schedule gives you, or who the standings give you.

Sean Sweeney is a defensive guy that did a great job with Milwaukee.

I hope I can stand up and be an example that helps change the narrative: 'He understands the game from a technical standpoint. He can teach the game. He can change an offense. He can put in a zone. He can do more than recruit.'

Make or miss, you still have to shoot the same shot with confidence.

You can't allow yourself to get typecast as a recruiter, because that label sticks and carries. I fought it. I made myself learn the game and teach the game.

Help me help you help yourself is kind of the motto I have.

It irks me when I read the narrative that 'Dwane is salty.' I can't say anything right.

From a pure basketball standpoint, it's hard to say you wouldn't want Kawhi Leonard on your team.

When I first became a head coach, even back in Minnesota, I'm going to go with the known and leave the unknown alone.

To me, there's no honor to say, 'I'm going to start.' As long as you're getting minutes, you're closing games, that shows more of the value to the team than to say you're a starter.

When I was coaching at Kentucky - I was a grad assistant and I just got through playing and we won the NCAA Championship in 1978, so I stayed after I got through playing - we had Japan's national team coach Mototaka Kohama come to Lexington to spend the year and study basketball. He and I became great friends, so we hung out together.

I talk to a lot of European coaches. I got friends over there that I steal stuff from, talk to, maybe have them look at what we're doing and say, 'Hey, what would you do differently?'

The unwritten rule in college basketball is the black assistant goes and gets the black players. Don't worry about the X's and O's. Just recruit.

When it comes to playoff time, the game slows down, the offense slows down and you've got to be able to get stops.

Players want to get better with their skill set and 3-point shooting, ballhandling, their bodies, whatever it is, but everything starts with a sense of urgency.

I love Drake.

In my mind, LeBron James is the best player in the league.

I love watching players improve - even as a Little League coach.