In this post, you will find great Tom Thibodeau Quotes. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
When you look at what a coach does, it is leadership, it is communication, it is teaching, it is motivation. It really comes down to those four things.
When you look at coaching in the pros 25-plus years, I have been with rebuilding teams and I have been with championship teams, and so I know all the steps in-between.
One, I’m never happy. Two, I always think we can do better.
As you prepare for the draft, the first thing you do is evaluate the players you think will be coming out. Then you explore the possibility of either moving up or moving back.
I think the important thing is to lock into what you have to do each and every day, put everything you have into it, and then you let the results speak for themselves.
There’s no magic formula where you’re going to get everything done in one day. I think it’s about establishing and building the right habits to be successful.
You can have a great season, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re great. To be great you have to do it year after year after year.
It is rare when you have the opportunity to get a top-10 player.
I never look at a clock. When the work’s done, the work’s done.
I have great respect for the Heat organization, the way they play, what Pat Riley has done there, Erik Spoelstra.
I never work backwards.
The teams that win consistently, they put the work into it and they don’t skip steps.
The offseason is critical for any young player.
You’re going to always play your main guys more minutes.
The way you execute in this league is through repetition, and that’s both offensively and defensively.
I think as you’re approaching Draft day, you’re thinking about all of the possibilities, and you know that’s one way you can improve your club.
I try to work out. As an assistant, it was a lot easier to work out. Then as a head coach, not as much as I should have.
Normally a summer league is a dry run for training camp, gives the guys an idea what training camp looks like, and then summer league, you’re not really playing against NBA rotation type players, so not a good example of the talent level you’ll be facing, but the fall practices give you a good head start.
The game never stays the game – it’s always evolving.
You have to have core values. What do you believe in? Do you believe in hard work? Do you believe in discipline? Do you believe in conditioning? Because those are the things I know that do work.
Whether you’re talking about the 70s Knicks or the 90s Knicks, the championship-caliber teams, it all starts with your defense, your rebounding, your willingness to play for each other.
I know for me, I put everything I have into each and every day. So I have no regrets.
I know where confidence comes from: Work and preparation.
Injuries are part of the game for everybody. You have to manage those circumstances as best you can.

I think players look around and they look at the teams that they’d like to join and it’s usually teams that already have good players on those teams.
Most players, they want to be coached, they want discipline, and they want an environment in which they can play their best.