Flip Saunders Quotes on Success (7 Quotes)

Any time you take a job where a team won the championship and got within five minutes of winning another, you wonder, how are they going to accept you But they've been very open to coaching, very open to doing whatever we've asked.

Usually, whatever team is aggressive is going to have success. I thought they were more aggressive. Our strength is our ability to play hard and be aggressive, and when a team does that better than you do, you're going to struggle.

Any time you are a competitor and you're not winning, you get frustrated. The great ones all do and he's going to be one of the greatest that ever played this game.

I look at their team, and we are mirror images from the standpoint of we both have some exciting players, but because both teams are so unselfish and there's not a lot of controversy, they don't get a lot of individual notoriety. Bottom line is, both teams are about winning, and about doing whatever it takes to win.

I've always said that if we have the success that we've had as a team, then that style, whatever it is, will filter on down into the grass roots. I think people will see that by playing as a team and having success, you can get individual glory.

We can feel good about winning, get over it and get back to business tomorrow. I think the big thing with us, we're not playing Milwaukee, we're playing ourselves.

It's the same thing. Keep sharp, not get anybody hurt, be in a situation to go out and have some success.