“I would be very offended.” (10/30/2025)

“I think that’s definitely 100% on me.” (11/5/2025)

"You take a look at him with a grain of salt, like the stats." (11/8/2025)

"He's just doing all the things that either help us win the shot margin or give us a chance and play to the way that we want to play." (11/2/2025)

"Play the music!" (per Derrick White, date unknown)

"Five games in, 77 left." (10/29/2025)

"It was just cool because you got to see how competitive these guys and girls are....Like, we're all the same when we get into a competitive environment." (10/15/2025)

“When you wake up in the morning, you gotta just make that choice. So it’s not something that we figured out. We have to remind and watch it tomorrow, and then we’re either going to do good or we’re not, and then we gotta remind and do it again.” (10/30/2025)

"We did it for 12 minutes last game. We probably did it for 20 to 24 today. So we're 12 minutes closer." (10/25/2025)

"I thought it was one of the most impactful phone calls that I had really in my life. Stayed at his house once and overslept for UCLA open gym. Went down for breakfast and got another ass chewing because I wasn't being competitive enough." (9/13/2024) 2/2

"My junior year in college, (I) wasn’t living up to anyone’s standards. I got a call. It’s Jerry. A lot of expletives, but he basically told me I was an F-up and had the opportunity to be great at something. Just let me have it for like 10, 15 minutes." (9/13/2024) 1/2

"The closer you think you're gonna submit someone is usually when you get submitted." (9/13/2024)

“Basketball is one of the only sports that doesn’t have a power play.” (10/31/2024)

“I don’t like Halloween.” (10/31/2025)

“He’s obviously a really good player.” (10/24/2025)

"There are things he needs to clean up, obviously, but I thought he did a great job helping set that third quarter tone with his effort and his toughness." (10/25/2025)

"You can’t be a creature of habit, because that’s not how the game is played." (10/22/2025)

"The phrase 'Defending a title' is a very passive-aggressive term. If you look at the animal kingdom, some of the strongest animals don’t defend; they’re the most aggressive, and they attack the most." (9/11/2024)

"I won't walk through revolving doors, because if one of them gets stuck, you're just a sitting duck." (4/19/2024)

"Every song I listen to, I ask can I come out to this for a UFC championship fight. That's to know if it's a good song or not." (7/9/2025)

“I just became eligible to be a deacon, which I’ve always wanted to do. There we go. I’ve been thinking about that.” (10/22/2025)

“We should have a business where you have, like, situation rooms....You know, like, 'Hey, what are you doing tonight?' 'Oh, we're going to grab dinner and then we're gonna go reenact the Bin Laden raid.'” (7/10/2025)

"There is no other team that I'm coaching. It's here or I'm going to coach my kid's soccer team or something like that." (10/21/2025)

"It's faith, family, and the Boston Celtics." (10/21/2025)

“No man, I don’t want to break it to you, but you’re not playing against each other. You’re playing against the coaches.” (10/14/2025)

“If I’m gonna taste death, you’re coming with me.” (From Starting Five, date unknown)

“I've answered that question one hundred times.” (10/12/2025)

“Who reported that he’s struggling with the language barrier? He’s not.” (10/10/2025)

"I mean, it's a classic ‘hold me back’ moment. What am I going to do? I’m the head coach, I can’t do anything. It was cool to fake it at the time." (10/2/2025)

“I hate preseason games. We should just have practice for a month straight.” (10/14/2025)

“I don’t see five guys rebound. So then I go get five, and they rebound. It’s that simple. Doesn’t matter about wings, bigs, it doesn’t matter. Find five guys that will rebound, rebound. Go. It’s that simple.” (10/13/2025)

“At this point, I only yell at him in Spanish.” (10/10/2025)

“You guys got new chairs? Anything for you guys to be comfortable, huh? You need armrests now? Unbelievable.” (10/12/2025)

"Zero. I'll save you time." (10/8/2025)

“Everything in this world today is about recency bias. Every time it’s like, 'oh this is the best ever.' ...[W]hatever you’re going through right now is the biggest, the best, the most important, hardest, easiest. None of that really matters. It’s all the same.” (10/6/2025)

"The world is soft." (10/2/2023)

"A lot of defense is really more about being in the right position before the play starts, and not waiting for the play to start." (9/29/2025)

"But at the end of the day, the process of winning is the ultimate goal, and that will forever be the goal as long as you coach." (9/29/2025)

“No more Jayson questions.” (10/6/2025)

“The message is the same. Don’t put yourself in a box about how you can impact the game. You need to impact the game in different ways and you have to have balance. You have to be able to go to different things on different nights.” (9/29/2025)

"Some people, you go visit them. Some people you just see here. Some people like dinner, some people like coffee, some people don't like doing anything at all." (9/29/2025)

"If I ever get to the point where I start basing my motivation on the expectations of others and people that I've never met before, I'll retire, quick." (9/29/2025)

“I see what you did there, trying to build that correlation between Payton and Anfernee, which I’m sure you’ll try to do the whole season, So, nip that in the bud immediately. Those two don’t go hand in hand, they’re completely different guys.” (9/29/202)

“I was there the first time he walked, I was there the first time he ran, I was there for the first shots he took.” (9/29/2025)

“He had to go to a dark place and I’m glad he had to go there.” (9/29/2025)

“I’m not telling you that.” (5/14/2025)

“They’ll be ready.” (5/12/2025)

“It’s tough to watch a guy like him being carried off like that.” (5/12/2025)

“Since he came back, he’s kind of been dealing with it — working through it, fighting through it, doing the best he can. And I think it was just too much for him in that game. He had been working through it since he’s gotten back, and he’s done a great job of being available.” (5/6/2025)

"Have to have better play-calling, have to make shots, have to make some better reads. Yeah, have to be better." (5/5/2025)