Quotes About Performance

I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.

I'm a numbers guy, and I think numbers sometimes tell stories and sometimes they don't. When you look at the NBA, when teams shoot 45% or better from the floor, what is their record? And if they shoot under that what is their record?

Great execution. That's what you have to do when you're playing great teams.

I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.

We would play songs live on stage, and then we'd watch their reaction we were receiving immediately, if people were dancing and singing along. If they weren't, then we'd go into the dressing rooms of the different NBA teams that we were playing in their arenas, and we'd change the songs right there.

Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars.

I want the Saints to be one of those teams where when other teams see us on the schedule, they know they're in for one hell of a game.

Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.

Losing is not fun. I know the fans don't like it, but they don't have to watch it every day. I have to watch it every day. I don't like watching bad teams.

There's a handful of teams that have a revolving door, that are changing coaches every couple of years, and you can look at the success that they're having. They're not.

A couple teams will grind the shot clock down. Most of the time coaches do that, it's usually a talent deficit. They can't compete against the better teams.

It's harder when you're supposed to win. When you're talking about the best players and the best teams in the world, when you talk about the Heat, you can ask them - it's not easy.

The favourites and the stronger teams have a lot of pressure during the group phase because everybody just takes it for granted that they will reach the round of 16.

If we sit here and think about what other teams are doing and the points game and all that, we're going to go crazy, and it's not going to help our game.

When you look at Jerry Sloan teams, they're all very disciplined. They execute well. They play within themselves.

The pressure is on the big teams.

Through the regular season, if you get really good at what you do, teams will have a hard time adjusting to you.

When you play on bad defensive teams, you get labeled as a bad defender.

The NFL wants to see teams put up points.

If you can get your team to that point of being able to be in that playoff race mindset every week, that's something that most teams can't do.

People get recruited from sketch groups and put on 'Mad TV' and 'SNL,' but those aren't ensembles, they're all-star teams.

With Serbia, there will always be pressure. We are the kind of players and people who do not know how to live without pressure. Even if we play against Brazil or some of the other bigger countries, we think we are better than them. That is the way we are. People expect us to beat the big teams, and we have plenty of pressure from within.

I think greatness is always good for the NBA. Great players, great teams - it's always good for the NBA.

To me, it doesn't matter who's out there: NBA basketball is great - if teams are putting out their best players and they're competing to win.