Top 66 Tom Thibodeau Quotes

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Your core beliefs of what it takes to win, I don't thin

Your core beliefs of what it takes to win, I don’t think those change.
Tom Thibodeau
All my coaches growing up, they were teachers, coaches, and I always had an appreciation for the most demanding teachers because I thought they got the most out of you.
Tom Thibodeau
You miss the camaraderie of being around your team and your staff. It’s good to be back in the middle of it all.
Tom Thibodeau
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.
Tom Thibodeau
I think when a team wins, the fans enjoy it.
Tom Thibodeau
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.
Tom Thibodeau
You know I’m never happy. I’m not happy, unless I’m miserable.
Tom Thibodeau
The biggest thing is chemistry on the floor and winning.
Tom Thibodeau
Throw the losses away.’ The family mantra.
Tom Thibodeau
One, I’m never happy. Two, I always think we can do better.
Tom Thibodeau
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.
Tom Thibodeau
We’re all going to get criticized for something. I’ve always been comfortable with that.
Tom Thibodeau
A player is not going to get minutes just to get minutes. You have to impact winning, you have to put the team first.
Tom Thibodeau
If you don’t control the ball, you’re dead.
Tom Thibodeau
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.
Tom Thibodeau
In some cases where the team is mixed, there’s almost two practices going on in one, where your young guys are getting the work they need, and the older vets are in the weight room getting strength and conditioning.
Tom Thibodeau
At Team U.S.A., I’ve worked with Doc Rivers, Jeff Van Gundy, Brendan Malone, not just great head coaches but assistants and great college coaches.
Tom Thibodeau
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.
Tom Thibodeau
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.
Tom Thibodeau
It is rare when you have the opportunity to get a top-10 player.
Tom Thibodeau
I never look at a clock. When the work’s done, the work’s done.
Tom Thibodeau
Sometimes as players achieve more and more and get further down the line in their careers, they tend to skip over the work part.
Tom Thibodeau
Sometimes you think you know someone as a player, but then you spend six weeks together, and you really get to know them as people.
Tom Thibodeau
You want to practice smart and you want to build a system in which you can bring the best out of each player and also bring the best out of the team.
Tom Thibodeau
Sometimes to make up ground, if you’re in a big hole, you might add more 3-point shooting.
Tom Thibodeau
I think the playoffs heighten everything, you’re fighting the same opponent over and over again.
Tom Thibodeau
I think I experienced it during the ’90s that there’s no better place to be than Madison Square Garden.
Tom Thibodeau
I have great respect for the Heat organization, the way they play, what Pat Riley has done there, Erik Spoelstra.
Tom Thibodeau
I never work backwards.
Tom Thibodeau
One guy being off is going to hurt you. So you need everyone working together.
Tom Thibodeau
The teams that win consistently, they put the work into it and they don’t skip steps.
Tom Thibodeau
You never know how a season will unfold.

You never know how a season will unfold.
Tom Thibodeau
The offseason is critical for any young player.
Tom Thibodeau
I went on vacation with my nephews to St. Thomas and we had a ball.
Tom Thibodeau
Every game reveals exactly where you are. We should have a good understanding after every game why we either won or lost that game.
Tom Thibodeau
I was in Philadelphia when Kobe was a senior in high school and he used to come to all our practices and I would work him out.
Tom Thibodeau
You’re going to always play your main guys more minutes.
Tom Thibodeau
It’s more than just playing hard. You have to maintain concentration and you have to combine that with your intensity level.
Tom Thibodeau
I think the important thing for me is to just be able to have a voice.
Tom Thibodeau
The way you execute in this league is through repetition, and that’s both offensively and defensively.
Tom Thibodeau
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.
Tom Thibodeau
When you get the second defender on the ball, their responsibility is to get rid of it, to make plays for their teammates.
Tom Thibodeau
There’s some nights you shoot the ball better than others. When you don’t shoot it well, you have to have an understanding you can play well by doing other things.
Tom Thibodeau
I know what New York is like when the Knicks are successful and there is nothing comparable.
Tom Thibodeau
What wins still goes back to who you are as a player and what you do well. If you’re a great 3-point shooter, you try to get as many of those shots as you can. If you’re a good driver, get in the restricted area.
Tom Thibodeau
I think that when you sort of look at what’s gone on where players are familiar with each other – it starts in high school with AAU. When they get to the pros there’s All-Star Games, they share agents and then there’s Team U.S.A. stuff. They build relationships.
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The physical toughness is the obvious – the ability to push through things no matter what’s coming at you, to keep going, to not give in. Never surrender. Usually the victory goes to the guy who can play through it the longest. Of course, the mental part is equally important.
Tom Thibodeau
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.
Tom Thibodeau
You are only wrong if you don’t communicate.
Tom Thibodeau
And when you study the NBA, you realize and know that the NBA is never staying the same. It’s always evolving, it’s always changing.
Tom Thibodeau
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.
Tom Thibodeau
The game never stays the game – it’s always evolving.
Tom Thibodeau
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.
Tom Thibodeau
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.
Tom Thibodeau
Everyone tends to measure people on points and shots and not the all-around game.
Tom Thibodeau
If you’re guarded, you drive the ball or move the ball and make a quick decision, and help someone else.
Tom Thibodeau
I know for me, I put everything I have into each and every day. So I have no regrets.
Tom Thibodeau
I know where confidence comes from: Work and preparation.
Tom Thibodeau
Passing and defense are two things that help build your team, brings the best out of people.
Tom Thibodeau
Some guys are quiet, and that works for them. Some guys are loud, and like to talk, and that’s fine. Just get the job done.
Tom Thibodeau
I think when you look at Jimmy Butler when he came in, he hardly played as a rookie. He played more each year and then would become a top-10 player in the league. It’s a testament to his work ethic and how he approached things.
Tom Thibodeau
Injuries are part of the game for everybody. You have to manage those circumstances as best you can.
Tom Thibodeau
I think the big thing is you look at your team, and you

I think the big thing is you look at your team, and you always think about ways that you can improve.
Tom Thibodeau
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.
Tom Thibodeau
I actually grew up a Knick fan – my dad was a Knick fan.
Tom Thibodeau
Most players, they want to be coached, they want discipline, and they want an environment in which they can play their best.
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