Quotes from Chris Mullin

The game changes when you play good defense and don't come up with the ball.

Sometimes a player can look like a million bucks on tape, but in real life, the kid can't play a lick.

I have read that I was a Bill Bradley type. I wish I was a Bradley. He was one of the best. He helped his team win two championships, and that's the ultimate.

When you play injured, you're still judged like you're 100 percent. You know you can't do all you want to, but you want to get back to help your teammates.

I'm not one of those one-man-gang type of players. I'm a guy who has to rely on his teammates, to play within the team structure.

What you do is build your team around your core. Some teams have one main guy - not many, but some do - and you build around that. If you have a bunch of good players, that's another way to go about it - through depth, teamwork, defense, and fundamentals.

My game hasn't changed too much. I'm doing the same things as I did in college, except I'm outside more. It's tough to go inside in the pros because the players are bigger.

The biggest difference between college and pros is a lot more games and better competition day in, day out. You don't really have any nights off.

I have family and friends who are policemen and are close to my heart.

I would have liked to play in New York and be close to my family and friends, but since there is nothing I can do about it, I really don't care where I go.

I belong to the Flatbush Avenue Fishing Club.

Forget about what happened in the past. The past is the past. Who cares? Time heals things.

The basketball experience that I have, you can use in different areas, but coaching itself, you have to go out there and learn on the fly.

Life is so fragile.

I don't really differentiate from big-time college basketball to any other kind of basketball. It's basketball. It's fundamentals and defense and shooting - they're all the same.

Whatever you wind up doing in life, things aren't handed to you.

A lot of things have happened that I wish I could have just walked away from. But you wind up saying, 'This is what it is - how does it get better, or how does it affect you, or how can you influence it in a positive way?'

I've played a long time and had success in a lot of areas. The one thing that eludes a lot of us is a championship. The teams that get there have guys willing to make adjustments, to sacrifice. I'm willing.

The one thing I'm good at is taking things day by day.

New York - to me, it's the greatest city in the world, and it's got the most genuine people.

I think Isaiah Thomas has been a really nice player for the Kings.

Ray Allen is one of the fittest guys in the league.

My family's been coming to my games since I was in grade school.

If you're going to preach dedication, work ethic, teamwork, unselfishness, and being part of a team to accomplish a common goal, you have to live it - you can't just talk about it.