Quotes from RED AUERBACH

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Just do what you do best.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell?

Players are people, not horses. You don't handle them. You work with them, you coach them, you teach them, and, maybe most important, you listen to them.

If you're keeping score, win.

The greatest coach in basketball history began his professional career coaching football players at basketball.

The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.

Winners train, losers complain. Give me twelve players that want to win and they will find a way to win.

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.