Quotes from Jerry West

The league is changing, and we don't have many back-to-the-basket players. We now have a game that requires skill and versatility. A lot of that is about being able to think. It makes all the difference in the world to have a player in there with a high basketball IQ who can make the right decision.

You get so addicted to winning that you don't want that feeling to stop.

The advent of so much dribbling has created a different kind of player, and it starts at a very early age. We have so many gifted ball handlers. Everything is pick-and-roll. Unless he's a catch-and-shoot guy, a player is going to put it on the floor and attack. Kevin Durant is a wonderful ball handler.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on days when you feel good.

As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

I think, at the end of the day, when you hear the same voice all the time, it goes in one ear and out the other when you're a player.

I've been so low sometimes and when everyone else would be so high because I didn't like myself.