Quotes from Stan Van Gundy

My dad has coached a long time, so there aren't too many conversations in my family that haven't centered around basketball.

We took the handcheck out of the game to give guys like Steph Curry more freedom. Why didn't we say, 'Just get in the weight room and get stronger?'

My dad was a basketball coach, and so I went to his games. But baseball was the sport I could enjoy with him, whereas with basketball, I wasn't with him.

People of conscience are compelled to oppose racism, sexism, and intolerance of people with different sexual identities and orientation wherever and whenever they see it.

Selling advertising on jerseys is preferable to keep jacking up prices on the fans.

When you have privilege, you have to been quiet and listen.

I've been privileged to coach a lot of great people, high-character guys, and I don't think I've ever coached a better professional than Joel Anthony.

The league has been good to all of us in terms of what we get out of all these TV contracts and everything, so it would be a little disingenuous to complain too much. But if I had my way, we'd take a five-day break at Christmas. I mean it.

Rondo's a great player, and most teams look at it that anytime you have a chance to get a great player, you do it.

Our country was founded on protest. Otherwise, we would still be a colony of England.

I really think the people I run into in the NBA, whether it's the front office side or in coaching, everybody wants to work in an atmosphere where everybody's pulling in the same direction.

While people can differ on the issues, no one should seek to discourage freedom of speech.

At Wisconsin, I wasn't working for people who believed in me.

The biggest thing I learned at Wisconsin was, it's all who you work for, not where you work or what level.

As NBA coach, people get on you. But politics, maybe even more so at the local level, is nasty on a very personal level. I have a thick skin, but I don't want to deal with it.

If I'm going to be grinding, then I want to coach. If I'm not going to be coaching, I want to be semi-retired, at least.

I think it inhibits a guy's development when he's simply handed minutes and doesn't have to do anything to earn them, and thus, there's no reason to work harder or change the way you play.

In this business, if you lose, you're gonna get fired. Now, if you win, you still may get fired. That's the hard part. You see guys having success and getting fired. That's really tough to watch.

I enjoy the challenge of being a head coach.

I've been around a lot of great coaches in college and the NBA, and I knew Erik Spoelstra three months, and I told my wife, father, and brother that this guy is going to be a helluva coach.

Tom Gores has been involved in the City of Detroit, not just the surrounding area.

I think we disregard fans too much. They drive our sport. The money has gotten so big that it has become a corporate league other than the nosebleed seats.

When 'Sports Illustrated' came out with their 50 most fashionable people in sport, that fact that I wasn't on that list is a travesty.

I think one of the most important things for a young player's development is that they understand that they will play when they deserve the right to play.