Red Auerbach Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

If you want to be a Champion, you've got to feel like one, you've got to act like one, you've got to look like one.

The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.

Winners train, losers complain. Give me twelve players that want to win and they will find a way to win.

Just do what you do best.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

The best way to forget one's self is to look at the world with attention and love.

If they think we've got an edge, we've got an edge.

Look after your people.

I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

All records are made to be broken.

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

Any coach needs talent. You start with talent. Without talent, we're all in the soup.

You handle animals. You deal with people.

Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.

You can't win without the ball.

I never had a set of rules. Every situation is different.

The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.

He has the players too happy.

Everything can happen in the playoffs.

If I'm going to coach the players, I want some say on who they're going to be.