56 Quotes by George Karl

The day when you get told is a tough day. It was a hard night, ... But once you get the news, it's living with it and getting stronger and knowing that you are going to be fine. And you are going to kick its butt. And those days got better every day.

When you have Ruben Patterson and Reggie Evans out there? When you don't know what play to run, just let them play? Let them go into the backyard, lower the fence and let the dogs go do it.

Energy. Rotation. To put my best teams on the court. . . . To cover Sam. To get more minutes of a strong defender on Sam as I can.

Anybody that knows basketball knows Melo has got to develop the other aspects of his game.

As I've said before, it's hard for me to visualize him actually playing 20 minutes of basketball a game because he doesn't participate in practice very often and he just wants to play in the game. That philosophically doesn't make any sense to me. I think he has a big- time heart. I think he's a big-time competitor and he did a hell of a job in the second half against Brand in Game 1.

You pick and choose your times you make your disciplinary statements and your dictatorial statements and I thought (this) was the time.

This is an internal matter that we will deal with in-house.

They are basically playing the box-and-1 on 'Melo most of the night. We have to find a way to move 'Melo around and help him and get the ball to him before the defense sets a little bit better. We also have to pass the ball and knock down some shots to get the defenders away from him.

It was nice to get a win when we didn't play well. I think we are going to have to play better and harder than we did Thursday to win Saturday.