You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

French was my first language.

We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.

My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.

Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

Sports creates a bond between contemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.

It is time for everyone to sit down - the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity - and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.

I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can develop better than their skills.

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.

I had a lot of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before.

Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

Coaching really is an individual philosophy.

Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching.

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.

I could stay in Germany and start my coaching career there. I did not want to.

My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we have an excellent staff. We've got some younger guys on offense, but that's what I coach and have my entire coaching career.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

And, coaching has never been an option for me.

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.

Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that.

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.