Vince Lombardi Quotes

It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence.

Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.

It's a scary thing when a team don't know who to match up to, whose night it's going to be on the offensive end.

Mike D'Antoni is a great offensive mind. He's a great coach.

It's how I've been playing my whole life, guarding the best player on the other team.

Whoever I'm playing against, I go in and try to stop their best scorer and try to get myself going on the offensive end.

I know teams are gameplanning against me, trying to not let me shoot pull-ups, basically trying to take me out of the game as much as they can.

LeBron's probably the best player in the world, so you just have to make it tough for him, make him take tough jump shots and things like that.

The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

There's two facets of this game. You know, if I'm not making shots, OK, then I have to do something on defense. So if I'm missing shots or making shots, it doesn't affect my overall game.

Anybody can be beaten by one pass once. Are you getting beat by that same pass multiple times in the same game? That answer is no.

Teams that just play on one side of the floor are going to struggle against defenses that load up on that side.

Both offensively and defensively, the presence that I have is pretty profound.

We have to let our defense dictate our offense.

Regardless of what you do, or who you have, at the end of the day you have to be able to execute better than the defense does in order to score points.

Don't give them 3-point shots if that's what they're trying to do and embarrass you in any way.

When you master all defensive and offensive aspects of the game and always enjoy the majority of possession, you're sitting in pole position to win.

To beat opposing teams, you have to attack, and to attack, you have to take risks.

In high school, you don't play much defense. It's mostly offense. In college, it's vice versa, and that's what I tried to do.

If you have a defensive concept, you're going to play defense. If you don't have a defensive concept, and you have an offensive concept, then you're going to play offense.

I like to be active in space in behind the opposition's midfield. That's where I can hurt the opponent most of all.

Be tough. As a big guy, it's what your teammates expect from you, to be strong. Set good screens offensively and box out at the other end. It's a simple technique. I learned it when I was little.

If he's averaging 25 points and I can contain him to 17, then I've won the battle. If he averages 12 assists and I kept him to seven, I'm winning the game.

With my position, you have to kind of be three steps ahead of your opponent.