I think the biggest thing I want to learn from Kevin Garnett, with him having a ring, is how do I become a championship player? How do I see how a championship team looks like? How do I use myself to be a championship contributor?
After I left the Nets, I found out what it takes to not just make the Finals, but to win a championship. I think I have a sense now of how you build a championship structure and how you maintain that structure.
All of the teams in this league that have won multiple championships, they didn't come out the gate winning. Sometimes you have to take those hits to understand what it takes to win.
It never bothered me when people would say, 'You only win championships because you're playing with Shaq.' It bothered me when he said it.
My whole thing when I got in the NBA was I want to win a championship. The mindset hasn't changed.
This is the Boston Celtics. This isn't the Phoenix Suns. No disrespect to any other organization, but you don't hang conference titles. Do we hang going to the conference finals?
You're measured by championships no matter what.
I want to develop a championship culture that's filled with high-character people that are dedicated to becoming the best versions of themselves.
At Real Madrid, I learned a will to win.
A LeBron James team is never desperate.
When you take over at Kansas, they've always won, so you're expected to win.
We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.
I remember embracing our championship tradition, telling our players that this is what we should expect to be; this is what Oklahoma is supposed to be. And we're going to do all we can to be that. And if we don't, there will be no excuses. You either do or you don't.
If you are going to be successful, there is no point in having three or four top individual players, because those players will win you games, but they will never win you titles.
The Celtics don't celebrate anything but championships.
At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships.
When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.
Real Madrid are a team of winners.
The air in Foxborough is just a little different. Like, Special things happen here. Winning happens here.
I know what a championship locker room looks like, what a championship team requires.
I think being a championship-contending team, you have to have a championship-level coach to take you over the top.
I say the Islanders were the best team I ever covered because they had more so many stars who delivered with Canadian-Swedish-suburban modesty. And they won four straight Stanley Cups from 1980 through 1983.
It's in the DNA of Liverpool Football Club to win trophies.
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
There's no doubt what the goal in Boston is. There is no grey, it is black and white. You're going to try to win the whole thing every single year.
