35 Quotes by Chuck Daly

I'm still totally involved. I watch most of the games on TV, I've done some consulting work for a number of teams, so I get to stay close to it.

Defense can't guard two things in a row.

Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.

Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.

I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players

The first shot does not beat you.

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.